(v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.

(v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

(v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.

(v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

(v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

(v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

(v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

(v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.

(v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

(n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

(n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

(a.) Burnt; consumed.

(a.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun.

(n.) A small gold coin formerly current in England; a half angel.

(n.) A French gold coin of the reign of Louis XI., bearing the image of St. Michael; also, a piece coined at Paris by the English under Henry VI.

(n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused.

(n.) A sort of small, rich cheese, made in Normandy.

(v. t.) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

(v. t.) To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.

(v. t.) To make low or humble.

(p. p. & a.) Afflicted.

(n.) A dam or mole made in the course of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation.

(n.) One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

(v. t.) To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

(v. t.) To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

(v. t.) To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

(n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.

(n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

(n.) An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

(adv. & a.) In a flaunting state or position.

(n.) One who maintains the doctrine of animism.

(a.) Nodding; as, annuent muscles (used in nodding).

(n.) A little ring.

(n.) A small, flat fillet, encircling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.

(n.) A little circle borne as a charge.

(n.) A narrow circle of some distinct color on a surface or round an organ.

(n.) A preceding act.

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(a.) Nearest the stern.

(prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.

(prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

(prep.) In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time.

(prep.) By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when.

(a.) See Adscript.

(n.) An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage.

(a.) Not sounding or sounded.

(n.) Alt. of Asphaltum

(v. t.) To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.

(n.) One who contends for the prize in public games.

(adv.) With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.

(n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

(n.) Disguise; covering.

(n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

(v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.

(v. t.) A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.

(v. t.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.

(n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

(v. t.) Prosecution.

(a.) To the death; mortally.

(n.) The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

(n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish.

(n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

(v. t.) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

(v. t.) To assist or help; to aid.

(v. t.) To impart strength and hope to; to encourage; to relieve; to console; to cheer.

(n.) Assistance; relief; support.

(n.) Encouragement; solace; consolation in trouble; also, that which affords consolation.

(n.) A state of quiet enjoyment; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; also, whatever contributes to such a condition.

(n.) A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.

(n.) Unlawful support, countenance, or encouragement; as, to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

(p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted.

(n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

(n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

(v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

(v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.

(v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

(v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.

(n.) A singer in a choir; a chorister.

(v. i.) To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon.

(v. t.) To comment on.

(n.) A remark, observation, or criticism; gossip; discourse; talk.

(n.) A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition.

(n.) A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

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(v. t.) To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions.

(n.) A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband.

(n.) A round body; an orb.

(n.) A circular piece of wood put under a dish at table.

(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

(n.) Circumlocution.

(v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

(v. t.) To travel around.

(n.) An ornamental or honorary headdress, having the shape and character of a crown; particularly, a crown worn as the mark of high rank lower than sovereignty. The word is used by Shakespeare to denote also a kingly crown.

(n.) The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin.

(n.) The iron head of a tilting spear; a coronel.

(a.) Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; as, correct behavior; correct views.

(v. t.) To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles.

(v. t.) To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

(v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying.

(v. t.) To counteract the qualities of one thing by those of another; -- said of whatever is wrong or injurious; as, to correct the acidity of the stomach by alkaline preparations.

(n.) One devoted to a sect; a soetary.

(n.) A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.

(v. t. & i.) To plot or plan together; to conspire; to join in a secret design.

(v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.

(v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.

(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.

(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

(n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.

(a.) Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

(a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges.

(a.) Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

(v. t.) To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

(v. t.) To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile.

(v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe.

(v. t.) To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify; as, to corrupt language; to corrupt the sacred text.

(v. t.) To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

(v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

(v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.

(n.) A mixture; a compound.

(n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.

(n.) A corselet.

(v. t.) To manure with compost.

(v. t.) To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.

(n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.

(n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.

(n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.

(n.) A segment gear.

(n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.

(n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

(v. i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.

(n.) A disciple of Comte; a positivist.

(a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.

(a.) Following as an effect; consequent.

(n.) A follower.

(n.) That which follows as a result; a sequence.

(a.) Believing; giving credence; credulous.

(a.) Having credit or authority; credible.

(v. t.) To give assurance to.

(n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.

(n.) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use of what is thus hired.

(n.) The price paid a common carrier for the carriage of goods.

(n.) Freight transportation, or freight line.

(a.) Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with freight; as, a freight car.

(v. t.) To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

(n.) One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

(a.) A stream of fresh water.

(a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.

(a.) Eating out; consuming.

(v. t.) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

(v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

(v. t.) To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.

(v. t.) To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.

(a.) Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

(a.) Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.

(n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

(n.) The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

(a.) The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

(n.) A kind of small ruffle.

(v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.

(v. t.) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.

(v. t.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.

(n.) Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

(n.) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.

(a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.

(a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

(n.) A write of elegies.

(n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

(n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

(n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.

(n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.

(n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.

(n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.

(n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.

(n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.

(n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression.

(n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.

(n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.

(n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.

(n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.

(n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire

(n.) the conditions and movements of the air.

(n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.

(n.) The whole material composing the world.

(n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.

(v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles.

(v. t.) To constitute; to make up with elements.

(a.) Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.

(n.) Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.

(n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

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(n.) A performer on the flute; a flautist.

(n.) To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.

(n.) To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result.

(n.) To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.

(a.) Fitted for, or pertaining to, digging.

(n.) One of the Fodientia.

(n.) A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet.

(n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.

(n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.

(a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.

(v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

(v. t. & i.) To gnaw all over, or on all sides.

(v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.

(Superl.) Uppermost; outermost.

(n.) A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.

(n.) A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.

(n.) A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.

(n.) A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.

(n.) A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.

(n.) A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

(n.) A small chapel or shrine.

(v. t.) To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.

(n.) A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.

(n.) A two-wheeled car or vehicle for war, racing, state processions, etc.

(n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat.

(v. t.) To convey in a chariot.

(n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

(n.) The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.

(n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

(v. i.) To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

(v. i.) To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.

(v. t.) To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit.

(n.) Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.

(n.) Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.

(n.) Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.

(n.) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.

(n.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

(n.) An associate in an act; a coworker.

(v. i.) To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.

(v. i.) To be composed or made up; -- followed by of.

(v. i.) To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in.

(v. i.) To be consistent or harmonious; to be in accordance; -- formerly used absolutely, now followed by with.

(v. i.) To insist; -- followed by on.

(n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

(n.) A ship keeping company with another.

(n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.

(n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.

(n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.

(v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.

(v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.

(v. t.) To attend; to accompany.

(n.) A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a matter in question.

(n.) A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

(n.) A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.

(n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.

(n.) That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.

(n.) A kind of cigar, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tobacco.

(n.) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin.

(v. i.) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

(v. t.) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.

(v. t.) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.

(v. t.) To deliberate upon; to take for.

(v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

(n.) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.

(n.) A council; a meeting for consultation.

(n.) Agreement; concert

(n.) A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.

(n.) A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.

(n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

(n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

(n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

(v.) To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.

(v.) To dwell or live together as husband and wife.

(a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

(n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.

(n.) Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.

(n.) Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.

(a.) To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.

(a.) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.

(n.) Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.

(n.) Acquiescence without examination.

(n.) That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.

(n.) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".

(v. t.) To restrain.

(v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

(v. t.) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.

(v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

(v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.

(n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.

(n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.

(a.) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

(n.) The part or parts of something written or printed, as of Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.

(v. t.) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

(v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

(v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.

(v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.

(v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.

(v. i.) To infer; to conclude.

(v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.

(v. t.) To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.

(v. t.) To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.

(v. t.) To act upon, or influence, unduly.

(v. i.) To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action.

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(n.) Alt. of Dovecote

(n.) A young or small dove.

(n.) A wether sheep between one and two years old.

(a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Diodon.

(n.) A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.

(n.) A woman's under-garment; a smock.

(n.) A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

(n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.

(n.) The act of drawing or pulling

(n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.

(n.) The drawing of a bowstring.

(n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.

(n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

(n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

(n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

(n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.

(n.) That which is drawn

(n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

(n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.

(n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.

(n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

(n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.

(n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.

(n.) That which draws

(n.) A team of oxen or horses.

(n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

(n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

(n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

(n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

(n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

(n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.

(n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

(n.) See Draft, n., 7.

(a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.

(a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

(a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.

(v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

(v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

(v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

(a.) Divided; separated.

(n.) A door latch, or sneck.

(v. t.) To separate by force; to tear apart.

(n.) A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets.

(n.) A small part or piece.

(n.) See Descant, n.

(v. i.) To debate; to discuss.

(v. t.) To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

(v. t.) To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.

(v. t.) To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.

(v. t.) To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.

(v. t.) To disturb; to disquiet; -- a Latinism rarely used.

(n.) One who sings or plays a solo.

(a.) Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

(a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.

(n.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.

(n.) That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.

(a.) Lighted by the stars; starlight.

(n.) A nobleman who possessed a starosty.

(a.) In a standing position; as, a lion statant.

(n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.

(n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.

(n.) A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government.

(n.) A statistician.

(n.) An absorbent.

(n.) A little ruby.

(a.) Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.

(a.) Returning.

(n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.

(n.) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin.

(v. t.) To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.

(v. t.) To draft or draw anew.

(n.) A second draft or copy.

(n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges.

(n.) A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rhode Island to Florida.

(n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.

(n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.

(n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery.

(n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.

(n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.

(n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.

(n.) See Racket.

(a.) Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.

(a.) Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.

(a.) Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.

(a.) Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.

(a.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.

(n.) The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.

(n.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

(n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.

(n.) A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

(v. t.) To take up; to elevate; to assume.

(n.) That which is assumed; an assumption.

(n.) One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

(n.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests.

(n.) A verse composed of such feet.

(n.) Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.

(n.) An article of dress.

(v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.

(a.) Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.

(a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.

(a.) Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.

(a.) Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.

(a.) Experienced; versed.

(a.) Former; sometime.

(n.) Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.

(n.) An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.

(n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.

(n.) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.

(n.) An ensign or flag.

(n.) The bearer of a flag; an ensign.

(n.) Alt. of Rajput

(v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit.

(v. t.) To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4.

(a.) Concise; contracted.

(a.) superl. of Big.

(n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

(n.) A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats.

(v. t.) To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.

(v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

(v. i.) To partake of a dessert after a feast.

(n.) One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.

(n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

(n.) One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

(n.) A godless person.

(a.) Wanting drink; thirsty.

(a.) Having a keen appetite or desire; eager; longing.

(prep.) Across; from side to side of.

(prep.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.

(adv.) Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.

(adv.) Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.

(n.) One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory.

(v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.

(v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.

(v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.

(v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.

(v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.

(v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.

(p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.

(v.) A touch or hit.

(v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.

(v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.

(v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.

(v.) An infecting influence.

(v. t.) To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

(v. t.) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.

(v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.

(v. t.) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.

(v. i.) To make an attempt; -- with upon.

(n.) A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.

(n.) A little bird; a nestling.

(n.) A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

(n.) A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

(n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

(n.) A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card.

(n.) Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing.

(n.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature.

(v. t.) To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

(v. t.) To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers.

(n.) Attraction.

(n.) An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

(a.) Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls.

(n.) A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.

(n.) See Bascinet.

(v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

(v. t.) To add an augment to.

(v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

(n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.

(n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

(n.) Same as Bascinet.

(v. i. & t.) To auscultate.

(a.) Being in a state of abeyance.

(a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

(a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

(a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

(v. t.) To cover with a blanket.

(v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

(v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

(n.) Alt. of Algaroth

(v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

(v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.

(v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.

(v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.

(v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.

(v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.

(v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

(n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.

(n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.

(n.) An allowance for maintenance.

(a.) Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem,

(n.) A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.

(n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.

(v. t.) To nourish; to support.

(v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.

(a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.

(n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

(n.) A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.

(n.) A boraginaceous herb (Alkanna tinctoria) yielding the dye; orchanet.

(n.) The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

(n.) One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

(n.) An ally; a confederate.

(n.) A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

(n.) A crossbow. See Arbalest.

(n.) A small tree or shrub.

(n.) Alt. of Quartette

(prep. & adv.) Along.

(n.) A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.

(n.) A complainant; a plaintiff.

(n.) An inquirer.

(n.) One who inquires, or asks questions.

(n.) Amaranth, 1.

(a.) Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.

(n.) Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.

(n.) A subtilty; an equivocation.

(n.) Subtilty; nicety; quibble.

(n.) The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.

(n.) Alt. of Quintette

(prep.) Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.

(prep.) Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of.

(prep.) Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.

(n.) A lover; a gallant.

(n.) A kind of small ordnance formerly in use.

(adv.) With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

(a.) Bellowing, as a calf; bawling; brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly.

(n.) A bolt with a barbed shank.

(n.) A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

(n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery.

(v. t.) To stab with a bayonet.

(v. t.) To compel or drive by the bayonet.

(n.) A small beam of light.

(n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

(n.) A niche, cupboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet.

(n.) A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves.

(n.) Alt. of Baalite

(v. t.) To line with Babbitt metal.

(p. p.) of Bedight

(v. t.) To bedeck; to array or equip; to adorn.

(n.) One of the four standards that support a bedstead or the canopy over a bedstead.

(n.) Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff.

(n.) A modest girl.

(imp.) of Behight

(p. p.) of Behight

(v.) To promise; to vow.

(v.) To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.

(v.) To adjudge; to assign by authority.

(v.) To mean, or intend.

(v.) To consider or esteem to be; to declare to be.

(v.) To call; to name; to address.

(v.) To command; to order.

(n.) A vow; a promise.

(v. t.) To illuminate.

() of Bename

(n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

(n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

(n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.

(n.) A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

(n.) Beneficence; liberality.

(n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.

(v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.

(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

(n.) Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

(n.) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.

(n.) Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.

(a.) High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

(v. t.) To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

(p. p.) Promised; vowed.

(p. p.) Named; styled.

(v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

(v. t.) To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.

(v. t.) To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.

(v. t.) To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.

(n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.

(n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.

(v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.

(a.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

(a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

(a.) Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

(a.) The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.

(a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.

(v. t.) To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.

(v. t.) To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.

(v. t.) To keep steady; to steady, morally.

(n.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

(v. t.) To enact again.

(v.) To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat.

(v.) To give back an image or likeness of; to mirror.

(v. i.) To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.

(v. i.) To be sent back; to rebound as from a surface; to revert; to return.

(v. i.) To throw or turn back the thoughts upon anything; to contemplate. Specifically: To attend earnestly to what passes within the mind; to attend to the facts or phenomena of consciousness; to use attention or earnest thought; to meditate; especially, to think in relation to moral truth or rules.

(v. i.) To cast reproach; to cause censure or dishonor.

(n.) Reflux; ebb.

(n.) To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.

(n.) To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium.

(a.) Past; gone by.

(a.) Resident; present in a place.

(n.) A resident.

(n.) A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.

(n.) a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment.

(n.) the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}.

(n.) A hut; a cottage; a small house.

(n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.

(n.) A private room in which consultations are held.

(n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.

(n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:

(n.) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an etagere or closed with doors. See Etagere.

(n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.

(a.) Suitable for a cabinet; small.

(v. i.) To inclose

(n.) A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

(n.) See Caddice.

(v. t.) To take notice of; to regard with special attention; to regard as worthy of special consideration; hence, to care for; to heed.

(v. t.) To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor.

(v. t.) To look toward; to front upon or toward.

(v. t.) To regard; to consider; to deem.

(v. t.) To have regard to; to have reference to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce.

(v.) The act of noticing with attention; the giving particular consideration to; hence, care; caution.

(v.) Esteem; regard; consideration; honor.

(v.) An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another.

(v.) Reputation; repute.

(v.) Relation; reference; regard.

(v.) Particular; point regarded; point of view; as, in this respect; in any respect; in all respects.

(v.) Consideration; motive; interest.

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

(a.) Persistent.

(n.) Alt. of Cafeneh

(n.) See Cajuput.

(n.) A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.

(n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons.

(v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.

(v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.

(v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.

(v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.

(v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.

(n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

(n.) A portrait; a likeness.

(n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.

(n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.

(n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.

(n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.

(n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.

(n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.

(n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.

(v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.

(n.) A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.

(n.) A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

(n.) See Camlet.

(n.) See Camelet.

(n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone.

(n.) A sacristan; also, a person retained in a cathedral to copy out music for the choir, and take care of the books.

(v. t.) To visit again.

(v. t.) To revise.

(a.) Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Candia; Cretary.

(n.) A pale red color, with a cast of orange.

(n.) Fine linen or crape dyed of this color.

(v. i.) Same as Discoast.

(v. t.) To make a saint of.

(n.) A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

(n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.

(n.) Same as Bandelet.

(v. t.) To spurt on or over; to asperse.

(n.) A little book.

(v. t.) To trust or intrust.

(n.) A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

(a.) Bent, like a bow.

(prep.) In the space which separates; between.

(prep.) From one to another of; mutually affecting.

(n.) A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

(n.) One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith.

(n.) A biblical scholar; a biblicist.

(n.) The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

(v. t.) To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.

(n.) The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.

(n.) See Bosket.

(n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

(n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.

(n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

(n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.

(n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.

(n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.

(v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

(n.) A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.

(n.) A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.

(n.) A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

(v.) Ramping; leaping; springing; rearing upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious.

(v.) Ascending; climbing; rank in growth; exuberant.

(v.) Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left.

(n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.

(n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.

(v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.

(a.) Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.

(a.) Having the chief power; ruling; predominant; prevalent.

(v. t.) To graft again.

(v. t.) To grant back; to grant again or anew.

(n.) The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

(n.) A renewed of a grant; as, the regrant of a monopoly.

(v. t.) To greet again; to resalute; to return a salutation to; to greet.

(n.) A return or exchange of salutation.

(n.) A rhymer; a rhymester.

(n.) A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

(n.) Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.

(n.) A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit, under Rabbit.

(n.) A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

(n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.

(v. t.) To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.

(v. i.) Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.

(v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.

(v. i.) To divert or amuse; to make merry.

(v. i.) To remove from a port; to carry away.

(v. t.) To eject from a post; to displace.

(v. t.) To take up (plants); to transplant.

(v. t.) To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot.

(v. i.) To put to rout.

(a.) Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

(v. t.) To break asunder; to rend.

(v. t.) To unseat.

(v. t.) To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

(v. t.) To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.

(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

(v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.

(v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

(n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.

(n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.

(n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.

(v. i.) To discourse or dispute; to discuss.

(n.) To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.

(n.) To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.

(n.) To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.

(n.) To lay aside; to rid one's self of.

(v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river).

(v. t.) A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation.

(v. t.) That which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.

(v. t.) A bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.

(v. t.) Money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.

(v. t.) A place of deposit; a depository.

(a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.

(a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.

(a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.

(a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.

(a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

(a.) Distended.

(n.) Breadth.

(a.) Distorted; misshapen.

(v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

(v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.

(v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

(v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.

(v. i.) The upper voice in part music.

(v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.

(v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.

(v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.

(v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

(n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

(n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

(n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

(n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

(n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

(n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

(n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.

(n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

(n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.

(n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

(v. t.) To deprive of wonted usage; to disaccustom.

(n.) An unsightly object.

(n.) Contempt.

(n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

(n.) An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.

(n.) A mixture of salt, coarse meal, lime, etc., attractive to pigeons.

(n.) The harness of a drawloom.

(n.) Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.

(n.) A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bring

(n.) That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

(n.) A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.

(n.) A small South American deer, of several species (Coassus superciliaris, C. rufus, and C. auritus).

(n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.

(n.) The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

(n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

(v. t.) To eradicate; to extirpate.

(v. t.) To shut out.

(v. t.) Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.

(v. t.) Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.

(v. t.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.

(n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

(n.) A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.

(n.) In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.

(n.) A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.

(n.) Cloth of a scarlet color.

(a.) Of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.

(v. t.) To dye or tinge with scarlet.

(a.) Absorbed.

(n. & v.) Discomfit.

(n.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

(a.) Inactive; dormant

(n.) Bugbane.

(n.) A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

(n.) A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.

(n.) See Camlet.

(v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.

(v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.

(v. t. & i.) Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.

(n.) A birdbolt.

(n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case.

(v. t.) To determine, adjudge, or record (a plaintiff) as having dropped his suit, upon his withdrawal or failure to follow it up.

(a.) Nonsuited.

(p. p. & a.) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.

(n.) An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.

(n.) A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.

(v. t.) To take away; to withdraw.

(v. t.) To take credit or reputation from; to defame.

(v. i.) To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.

(a.) Operative.

(n.) An operative person or thing.

(n.) A small pond or pool; a puddle.

(n.) A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.

(n.) A small toad.

(n.) See Halibut.

(n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

(n.) All small tome, or volume.

(imp. & p. p.) of Indwell

(a.) Surrounded by the water of the sea or ocean; as, a seagirt isle.

(n.) A pit where coal is dug.

(n.) A place where charcoal is made.

(v. i.) To exist at the same time; -- sometimes followed by with.

(n.) Alt. of Coaltit

(n.) A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.

(n.) A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.

(n.) A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.

(n.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.

(n.) Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot.

(v. t.) A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.

(a.) Touching; touching at a single point

(a.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.

(n.) Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so called among tin miners.

(n.) A small tart.

(n.) A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.

(n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.

(n.) Term; expression; phrase.

(v. t.) To describe by an epithet.

(n.) A little drop; a tear.

(n.) Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.

(n.) Thirst; want of drink.

(n.) Scarcity; lack.

(n.) A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

(n.) By extension, any material used for the same purpose.

(n.) One who believes in dualism; a ditheist.

(n.) One who administers two offices.

(n.) A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

(n.) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.

(n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.

(n.) A kind of short arrow.

(v. t.) To haunt, as a spright.

(n.) One who fights in single combat.

(n.) The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.

(n.) The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.

(n.) A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.

(n.) Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.

(n.) That which falls to one; a reversion or return

(v. i.) To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.

(v. t.) To forfeit.

(n.) Alt. of Escopette

(a.) Sitting, as a lion or other beast.

(n.) That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

(n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.

(n.) Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

(n.) A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.

(n.) An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.

(n.) Design; pattern.

(v. t.) To conceive; to imagine.

(v. i.) To form an idea; to think.

(n.) Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes.

(n.) Consistency; accordance.

(n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

(v. t.) To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.

(v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.

(v. i.) To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.

(v. t.) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.

(v. t.) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.

(v. t.) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

(v. t.) To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.

(v. t.) To purify or refine chemically.

(v. t.) To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

(v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

(v. t.) To mature or perfect; to ripen.

(n.) A selfish person.

(n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

(n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.

(n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.

(n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.

(n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.

(n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.

(n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.

(n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.

(n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.

(n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.

(n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.

(v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.

(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.

(n.) A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid.

(n.) A structure forming a reservoir for water.

(n.) A narrow passage for private communication.

(v. t.) To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.

(v. t.) To construct; to form; to mingle or mix.

(n.) A comfit; a confection.

(n.) Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

(a.) Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.

(p. pr.) A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

(p. pr.) A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

(v. t. ) To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.

(v. t. ) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part.

(n.) To throw together, or to throw.

(v. t.) To conjecture; also, to plan.

(v. t.) To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.

(v. t.) To associate (a person or thing, or one's self) with another person, thing, business, or affair.

(v. i.) To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abye

(n.) A cramp iron or cramp ring; a chape, as of a scabbard.

(n.) See Crampet.

(n.) One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

(n.) A drove or herd.

(v. i.) To graze.

(n.) A piece; a fragment; a corner.

(a.) Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorously.

(a.) Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

(v. t.) To light or kindle anew.

(a.) Having the lips widely separated and gaping like an open mouth; as a ringent bilabiate corolla.

(n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.

(n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.

(n.) A small ripple.

(a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

(n.) A detergent.

(n.) A case for trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case.

(a.) Coming back; returning.

(n.) A rivulet.

(n.) A small stream or brook; a streamlet.

(n.) The chaffinch; -- called also roberd.

(n.) The European robin.

(n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.

(v. t.) To regain; to recover.

(a.) Remaining; yet left.

(a.) That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue.

(a.) A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap.

(a.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

(v. t.) To admit again; to give entrance or access to again.

(v. t.) To adopt again.

(n.) A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

(n.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.

(n.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.

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

(n.) The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount.

(a.) Rebellowing; resounding loudly.

() imp. & p. p. of Aby.

(adv.) Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast."

(adv.) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of.

(adv.) Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.

(adv.) At the same time; simultaneously.

(n.) The act of receiving; reception.

(n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality.

(n.) Capability of receiving; capacity.

(n.) Place of receiving.

(n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place.

(n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.

(n.) A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

(n.) That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.

(v. t.) To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.

(v. t.) To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.

(v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.

(n.) A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose."

(v. t.) To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.

(n.) A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.

(v. i.) To blow the recheat.

(n.) A small roof, covering, or shelter.

(n.) A radicle; a little root.

(v. t.) To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.

(v. t.) To plant again.

(v. t.) To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safety or preservation; to place; to store.

(v. t.) To print again; to print a second or a new edition of.

(v. t.) To renew the impression of.

(n.) A second or a new impression or edition of any printed work; specifically, the publication in one country of a work previously published in another.

(a.) Same as Repent.

(a.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc.

(n.) The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

(n.) That which is asked for or requested.

(a.) Rising; -- applied to a bird in the attitude of rising; also, sometmes, to a bird in profile with wings addorsed.

(v. t.) To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits.

(v. t.) Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.

(v. t.) To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; as, he recruited two regiments; the army was recruited for a campaign; also, to muster; to enlist; as, he recruited fifty men.

(v. i.) To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate; as, lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.

(v. i.) To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.

(n.) A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reenforcement.

(n.) Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

(n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.

(v. t.) To ask for (something); to express desire ffor; to solicit; as, to request his presence, or a favor.

(v. t.) To address with a request; to ask.

(n.) A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

(n.) A petty or powerless king.

(n.) The state of being at one or reconciled.

(n.) The male of the saker (a).

(a.) Same as Salient.

(v. i.) Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.

(v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.

(v. i.) Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.

(v. i.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion.

(v. i.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.

(a.) A salient angle or part; a projection.

(n.) The water chestnut (Trapa natans).

(n.) Same as Capellet.

(v.) Leaping; jumping; dancing.

(v.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.

(a.) Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

(n.) The knocker of a door.

(n.) A latch key.

(n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.

(n.) A partisan of Charles X. of France, or of Don Carlos of Spain.

(a.) Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.

(n.) A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.

(n.) A thin kind of satin.

(n.) A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.

(n.) A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year.

(n.) A small castle.

(n.) One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry.

(v. i.) To play the casuist.

(n.) A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.

(v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.

(v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.

(v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

(v. i.) To meet together; to concur.

(v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.

(v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

(n.) See Cunner.

(n.) A writing.

(n.) A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.

(n.) Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.

(n.) Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.

(n.) A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.

(n.) The constellation Serpens.

(n.) A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form.

(v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.

(v. t.) To wind; to encircle.

(n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.

(n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.

(n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.

(v. t.) To subject.

(n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.

(n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.

(n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together.

(n.) A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole.

(n.) A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.

(n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

(n.) A low stool.

(n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

(n.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

(v. i.) To play at cricket.

(n.) A net for catching small birds.

(n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

(n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.

(v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

(n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.

(v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.

(n.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc.

(n.) A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler.

(v. t.) To count or reckon again.

(n.) A counting again, as of votes.

(v.) To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.

(n.) One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.

(n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

(n.) The act of croqueting.

(v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.

(n.) See Crosslet.

(v. t.) To elect again; as, to reelect the former governor.

(n.) A coronet.

(n.) The ultimate end and result of an undertaking; a chief end.

(n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

(v. t.) To erect again.

(n.) The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

(p. p.) One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.

(p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.

(n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

(a.) Lying down; recumbent.

(v. t. & i.) To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.

(a.) Hematite or specular iron ore; -- prob. so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite.

(a.) Alt. of Oligistic

(n.) A stockade.

(n.) Alt. of Estafette

(n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer.

(v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance.

(v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine.

(n.) One who favors etacism.

(n.) A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.

(n.) One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.

(v. t.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.

(v. t.) Place where anything is commonly found.

(n.) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

(n.) A European herb (Swertia perennis) of the Gentian family.

(n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.

(n.) That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

(a.) Yielding odors; fragrant.

(n.) An outer coat; an overcoat.

(n.) A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women.

(n.) A small Europen flounder (Rhoumbus punctatus). The name is also applied to allied species.

(n.) The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.

(a.) Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.

(n.) A little hook.

(n.) An engine for casting stones.

(n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.

(n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.

(v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.

(v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.

(v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.

(v. t.) To put into great agitation.

(a.) Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.

(n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

(n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.

(n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

(n.) A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.

(n.) One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.

(n.) A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.

(n.) A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.

(n.) A small town.

(a.) Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.

(v. i.) To exist within; to dwell within.

(a.) Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.

(a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.

(v. t.) To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

(v. t.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

(v. t.) To modulate, as the voice.

(v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal.

(a.) Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

(v. t.) To break; to infringe.

(a.) Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate.

(v. t.) To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something.

(v. t.) To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

(v. t.) To destroy; to defeat.

(n.) A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.

(superl.) Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost.

(n.) Midst; middle.

(a.) Middle; middlemost.

(n.) The American hawk owl. See under Hawk.

(a.) Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.

(a.) Changeable; changing; fickle.

(n.) Something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.

(n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority.

(n.) A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or other thing.

(n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice.

(n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below.

(n.) That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty; security.

(n.) That which attests or proves; a voucher.

(n.) Right; legality; allowance.

(n.) To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.

(n.) To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain; to sanction; as, reason warrants it.

(n.) To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by giving a warrant to.

(n.) To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.

(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the same; to indemnify against loss.

(n.) To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.

(n.) To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it.

(n.) The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.

(n.) A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.

(n.) A pot containing melted tin into which the plates are dipped to be coated.

(n.) The string that fastens a shoe; a shoestring.

(n.) A small vein.

(a.) Pale or light blue.

(n.) A writ based upon the presumption that the person summoned was hiding.

(a.) Barking.

(n.) A little wave; a ripple.

(v. i.) To lament; to grieve; to wail.

(n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.

(n.) A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

(a.) Covered with growing plants or grass; green; fresh; flourishing; as, verdant fields; a verdant lawn.

(a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth.

(n.) The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matter of fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to their examination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury on the matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of a cause.

(n.) Decision; judgment; opinion pronounced; as, to be condemned by the verdict of the public.

(v. t.) To disquiet.

(a.) Not quiet; restless; uneasy; agitated; disturbed.

(a.) Not right; wrong.

(n.) A wrong.

(v. t.) To cause (something right) to become wrong.

(v. t.) To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates.

(v. t.) To drive from the roost.

(v. t.) To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to.

(a.) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.

(v. t.) To recall what is done by shouting.

(a.) Doing or done without sight; not seeing or examining.

(a.) Not spilt or wasted; not shed.

(v. t.) To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil.

(n.) Distrust.

(v. t.) To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine.

(v. t.) To untie; to open; to disentangle.

(a.) Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another.

(n. & interj.) Alt. of Tu-whoo

(n.) One who is in favor of itacism.

(a.) Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo.

(n.) The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter.

(n.) A thin cotton fabric, between and muslin, used for dresses, neckcloths, etc.

(a.) In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

(a.) Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

(a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.

(a.) Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

(n.) Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

(v. i.) To shoot upward.

(v. t.) To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.

(v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.

(n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.

(n.) The meadow saffron.

(a.) Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.

(n.) See Maxilliped.

(n.) One who makes an affidavit.

(n.) The urinary bladder.

(n.) A Utopian.

(n.) One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.

(a.) Crying like a child.

(n.) To advance on loan.

(v. t.) A kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.

(v. t.) To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

(v. t.) To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).

(v. t.) To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.

(v. t.) Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.

(n.) Acquisition; the thing gained.

(n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.

(v. t.) To quiet.

(n.) Acquisition; gain.

(n.) One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.

(n.) A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.

(n.) A glove. See Gauntlet.

(a.) Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.

(n.) Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

(v. t.) To refuse; to decline.

(a.) Deviating.

(n.) A little devil.

(a.) Fixed; stationary; immovable.

(n.) A callosity with inflamed edges, on the back of a horse, under the saddle.

(n.) A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box at the back for carrying dogs.

(n.) A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.

(n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

(n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

(n.) A maker of dials; one skilled in dialing.

(n.) A small boat; a skiff.

(n.) A small round box for keeping records.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Sium, / Pimpinella, Sisarum). It is a native of Asia, but has been long cultivated in Europe for its edible clustered tuberous roots, which are very sweet.

(n.) One who keeps a diary.

(n. & v.) See Docket.

(n.) A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.

(n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.

(n.) Cunning; craft; artful practice.

(n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.

(n.) Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.

(n.) Alt. of Dietitian

(a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles.

(a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant.

(a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep."

(a.) Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.

(n.) That which dilutes.

(n.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.

(a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.

(a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.

(a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.

(a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.

(a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.

(a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.

(a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.

(a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

(n.) A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.

(n.) Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

(n.) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.

(n.) A small or young stem.

(v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.

(v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

(n.) A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviare is made from its roe.

(v. t.) See Ingraft.

(n.) A pot used for stewing.

(a.) Stuck; spoiled in making.

(v. t.) To illumine; to enlighten.

(n.) A woodpecker; -- called also specht, spekt, spight.

(n.) One who enters; a beginner.

(n.) An applicant for admission.

(v. t.) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.

(v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.

(v. t.) To beseech or supplicate successfully; to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade.

(v. t.) To invite; to entertain.

(v. i.) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.

(v. i.) To make an earnest petition or request.

(n.) Entreaty.

(n.) An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard.

(v. t.) See Intrust.

(n.) A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu.

(n.) The sixth part of a circle.

(n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant.

(n.) The constellation Sextans.

(n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.

(n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.

(n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.

(v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.

(v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.

(v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.

(v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.

(v. t.) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.

(v. t.) To leave out of account; to omit.

(n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

(n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

(n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.

(a.) Running or moving rapidly.

(a.) Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

(a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.

(a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

(a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

(a.) A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.

(a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

(a.) Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.

(n.) Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.

(p. pr.) Bowed; bent; curved.

(v. t.) To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

(v. i.) To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

(a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

(n.) A dead person; one deceased.

(n.) A small kind of onion (Allium Ascalonicum) growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.

(n.) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.

(n.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

(n.) A cycler.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Cyprus.

(n.) See Account.

(n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

(n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

(n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

(n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

(n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

(n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

(n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

(v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.

(v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.

(v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

(v. t.) To recount; to relate.

(v. t.) A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.

(v. t.) That which gives great pleasure or delight.

(v. t.) Licentious pleasure; lust.

(v. t.) To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.

(v. i.) To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.

(v. t.) To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

(n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

(v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

(v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

(v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

(v. t.) To treat courteously; to court.

(n.) A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.

(n.) A flavored water ice.

(n.) A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also sherbet powder.

(n.) The sacred law of the Turkish empire.

(n.) The name used by the Algonquin Indians for the shell beads which passed among the Indians as money.

(n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.

(n.) The state of one who deserves ill.

(n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.

(n.) To depreciate or cry down.

(v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.

(v. i.) To dismount.

(n.) A little ship.

(v. t.) To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

(n.) One whose business it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

(p. p.) Painted.

(v. t.) To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.

(v. t.) To mark with, or as with, color; to color.

(v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers.

(v. i.) To separate, to open; to cleave.

(n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance.

(n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.

(v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim.

(v. t.) To furnish with a dispart sight.

(v. t.) To twist or wreathe round; to intwine.

(v. t.) To inclose in a vault; to entomb.

(n.) A term used differently by different authorities; -- by some as equivalent to fricative, -- that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, -- thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208.

(n.) Alt. of Epaulette

(n.) Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.

(n.) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.

(a.) Most distant; farthest.

(n.) One who describes the fauna of country; a naturalist.

(n.) Same as Triblet.

(n.) The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist.

(a.) Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

(n.) A musician who composes or performs fugues.

(a.) Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.

(n.) A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

(n.) Combat; war.

(n.) To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.

(n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

(a.) Beaming forth; flashing.

(a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.

(a.) Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint.

(a.) Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.

(a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

(v. t.) To cause to be extinct.

(a.) Fixed; settled; fastened.

(v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.

(v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.

(v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

(n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.

(n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

(n.) A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

(n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

(n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.

(n.) Extraction; descent.

(n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.

(v. t.) See Imprint.

(n.) Extraction.

(v. t.) To construct.

(v. t.) To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.

(v. t.) To delight in a high degree; to charm; to enrapture; as, music enchants the ear.

(v. t.) To inclose in a chest.

(n.) One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.

(n.) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.

(n.) The multiplier.

(n.) An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch.

(a.) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.

(a.) Noble in bearing or spirit; brave; high-spirited; courageous; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer.

(a.) Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

(n.) A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.

(n.) One fond of paying attention to ladies.

(n.) One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.

(v. t.) To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.

(v. t.) To handle with grace or in a modish manner; as, to gallant a fan.

(v. t.) To incrust. See Incrust.

(n.) See Galiot.

(a.) Farthest; remotest; at the very end.

(n.) A performer upon the viola di gamba. See under Viola.

(n.) A little or short note; a billet.

(a.) Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant.

(n.) A male cat, esp. an old one. See lst Gib. n.

(n.) Alt. of Tribolet

(n. & v.) See Gimlet.

(n.) The sunfish (Orthagoriscus, or Mola).

(a.) Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

(a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.

(n.) One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.

(a.) Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.

(a.) Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave.

(a.) Performed with valor or bravery; heroic.

(n.) A kind of loaded die.

(n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.

(n.) That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

(n.) That which is perceived.

(n.) An action at law; a suit in equity or admiralty; any legal proceeding before a court for the enforcement of a claim.

(n.) Alt. of Lazaretto

(a.) Flourishing, as in spring; vernal.

(pl. ) of Webfoot

(a.) Familiar; conversant.

(n.) The slope of a side of a mountain chain; hence, the general slope of a country; aspect.

(n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.

(n.) One of the divisions of a compound leaf; a foliole.

(n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes.

(n.) Injury; wrong; mischief.

(n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life.

(n.) Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine; -- whence the game of forfeits.

(n.) Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

(n.) Seriousness; reality; fixed determination; eagerness; intentness.

(a.) Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain or do; zealous with sincerity; with hearty endeavor; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers.

(a.) Intent; fixed closely; as, earnest attention.

(a.) Serious; important.

(v. t.) To use in earnest.

(n.) Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.

(n.) Something of value given by the buyer to the seller, by way of token or pledge, to bind the bargain and prove the sale.

(n.) Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard.

(n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited.

(v. i.) To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.

(v. i.) To fail to keep an obligation.

(p. p. / a.) In the condition of being forfeited; subject to alienation.

(n.) One who works in ebony.

(imp.) of Forgo

(a.) Spent with heat; covered with sweat.

(n.) A little fort.

(a.) The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.

(a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

(n.) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

(n.) A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

(a.) Crabbed; peevish.

(v. t.) To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

(n.) An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

(n.) See Escheat.

(n.) A freight; a cargo.

(a.) Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.

() of Fraught

(n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.

(a.) Springing up or emerging; -- said of a plant or animal.

(n.) Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.

(n.) One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.

(n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.

(a.) Vibrating; tremulous; resonant; as, vibrant drums.

(n.) A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.

(n.) One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.

(n.) A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.

(n.) A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.

(n.) A three-pronged fish spear.

(n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction.

(a.) Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.

(n.) One who is a master or a model of style, especially in writing or speaking; a critic of style.

(v. t.) To withdraw; to take away.

(v. t.) To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct.

(a.) Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

(a.) Placed under the power of another; specifically (International Law), owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.

(a.) Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.

(a.) Obedient; submissive.

(a.) That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.

(a.) Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.

(a.) That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically (Anat.), a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.

(a.) That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done.

(a.) The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.

(a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.

(a.) That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.

(a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2.

(n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.

(n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.

(v. t.) To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.

(v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.

(v. t.) To submit; to make accountable.

(v. t.) To make subservient.

(v. t.) To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.

(v. t.) To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath.

(n.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.

(v. t.) A knife; a cutting tool.

(v. t.) A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.

(v. t.) A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.

(v. i.) To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue.

(n.) A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.

(n.) A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

(n.) Three verses rhyming together.

(n.) A group of three notes sung or played in the tree of two.

(n.) Three children or offspring born at one birth.

(n.) A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into three parts.

(v. t.) To cut or divide into three equal parts.

(n.) A basic salt. See the Note under Salt.

(n.) A truant.

(v. i.) To be; to have existence; to inhere.

(v. i.) To continue; to retain a certain state.

(v. i.) To be maintained with food and clothing; to be supported; to live.

(v. t.) To support with provisions; to feed; to maintain; as, to subsist one's family.

(v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

(v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.

(v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.

(n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

(n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

(v. t.) To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

(v. t.) To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.

(v. t.) To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt.

(v. t.) To inform secretly.

(v. i.) To make suggestions; to tempt.

(n.) A trumpeter.

(n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

(n.) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

(v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

(v. i.) To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

(n.) See Verdin.

(n.) One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary.

(n.) Chrysolite.

(n.) A small medal.

(n.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

(v. t.) To put off; to lay aside, as a garment.

(a.) Not lived (in); -- with in.

(a.) Not exact; inexact.

(n.) A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.

(a.) Entering; penetrating.

(n.) One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station.

(v. t.) See Entreat.

(n.) A worshiper of idols.

(v. t.) To cause to lose heart; to dishearten.

(n.) A going in.

(n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.

(n.) A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.

(n.) An anthem or psalm sung before the Communion service.

(n.) Any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services.

(v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

(v. t.) To twist into or together; to interweave.

(a.) Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.

(v. t.) To disjoint.

(a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.

(a.) Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.

(n.) One who uses irony.

(n.) Want of worth; demerit.

(a.) Not meant or intended; unintentional.

(v. t.) To remove the paint from; to efface, as a painting.

(v. t.) To paint; to adorn with colors.

(v. t.) To remove the plaits of; to smooth.

(a.) Adjoining.

(n.) One who believes and practices Judaism.

(n.) A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons.

(n.) A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

(n.) A leader, or would-be leader, in matters of knowledge or taste.

(n.) Foresight; prudence.

(n.) A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers.

(n.) An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.

(n.) A herbalist.

(n.) A small herb.

(n.) A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.

(adv.) Out of this.

(n.) A utensil for melting glue, consisting of an inner pot holding the glue, immersed in an outer one containing water which is heated to soften the glue.

(n.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.

(a.) Burnt in; ineffaceable.

(n.) A bursting in or into.

(n.) A female cat.

(v. t.) See Enchant.

(v. t.) To put into a chest.

(n.) Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.

(n.) A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

(n.) To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.

(v. i.) To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.

(v. i.) To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.

(n.) A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.

(n.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.

(n.) A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish.

(a.) Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.

(a.) Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.

(v. t.) To admit, as a person or thing; to take in.

(v. t.) To use or apply; to administer.

(v. t.) To attach; to affix.

(n.) A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law.

(n.) A slight fever.

(a.) Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.

(n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.

(n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

(n.) See Feullemort.

(n.) A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.

(n.) A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.

(n.) The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.

(n.) A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.

(n.) A player on the harp; a harper.

(n.) See Haslet.

(n.) The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

(n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit.

(n.) The product or result of any exertion or labor; gain; reward.

(v. t.) To reap or gather, as any crop.

(n.) A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

(n.) See Thwart.

(n.) Alt. of Fitchew

(n.) The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment.

(n.) Specifically, a tomahawk.

(n.) A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

(n.) An adjunct; a helper.

(a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent.

(n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

(n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.

(n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

(n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

(n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

(n.) The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).

(n.) A loft or scaffold for hay.

(a.) Lame in the hip.

(v. t.) To adorn with a crest.

(v. t.) To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar.

(v. t.) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.

(n.) One who accepts the doctrines of Thomas Hobbes.

(a.) Having the power to tinge.

(n.) Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus caerulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.

(n.) A little wing; a very small wing.

(n.) A bastard wing, or alula.

(n.) An upward thrust or blow.

(n.) An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile.

(n.) A zonule.

(n.) A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ.

(prep.) On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors.

(a.) Illumined by the moon.

(n.) The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.

(prep.) Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond.

(prep.) Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of; independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as, without labor; without damage.

(conj.) Unless; except; -- introducing a clause.

(adv.) On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally.

(adv.) Outside of the house; out of doors.

(v. t.) To set against; to oppose.

(v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.

(v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

(n.) A prediction.

(n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

(v. t.) To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

(v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

(v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.

(v. i.) To come before the usual time.

(n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

(n.) One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.

(n.) A marine food fish of Bermuda (Brama Raji).

(n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

(n.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.

(n.) See Piquet.

(n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

(n.) One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.

(n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.

(n.) Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

(n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.

(n.) Alt. of Pikelin

(a.) Extended horizontally; stretched out.

(n.) That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.

(v. t.) To make great; to enlarge; to magnify.

(v. t.) To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

(v. i.) To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.

(v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.

(conj.) Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however.

(v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.

(v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.

(v. t.) To put in possession of.

(v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.

(v. t.) To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

(v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.

(v. t.) To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer.

(n.) That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation.

(n.) See Hyloist.

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

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

(v. t.) To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms.

(v. t.) A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.

(v. t.) The act of trajecting; trajection.

(v. t.) A trajectory.

(n.) See Tug, n., 3.

(n.) A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

(a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

(v. t.) To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.

(v. t.) To endure without being overcome, exhausted, or changed in character; to sustain; as, to support pain, distress, or misfortunes.

(v. t.) To keep from failing or sinking; to solace under affictive circumstances; to assist; to encourage; to defend; as, to support the courage or spirits.

(v. t.) To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.

(v. t.) To furnish with the means of sustenance or livelihood; to maintain; to provide for; as, to support a family; to support the ministers of the gospel.

(v. t.) To carry on; to enable to continue; to maintain; as, to support a war or a contest; to support an argument or a debate.

(v. t.) To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain; as, the testimony is not sufficient to support the charges; the evidence will not support the statements or allegations.

(v. t.) To vindicate; to maintain; to defend successfully; as, to be able to support one's own cause.

(v. t.) To uphold by aid or countenance; to aid; to help; to back up; as, to support a friend or a party; to support the present administration.

(v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons.

(n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.

(n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind.

(n.) That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.

(a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.

(n.) A coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer.

(n.) A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.

(n.) Excess in eating and drinking.

(n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.

(n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

(v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

(v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

(v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.

(v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

(a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood.

(n.) Same as Zenick.

(n.) A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.

(a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.

(a.) Suspected; distrusted.

(a.) Suspicion.

(a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.

(v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.

(v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.

(v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.

(v. t.) To look up to; to respect.

(v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

(n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

(n.) Lodestone; magnet.

(adv.) Aloft; on high.

(n.) A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

(n.) See Tabbinet.

(n.) A small tabor.

(n.) Inquiry; quest; search.

(n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination, esp. before a jury; as, a coroner's inquest in case of a sudden death.

(n.) A body of men assembled under authority of law to inquire into any matterm civil or criminal, particularly any case of violent or sudden death; a jury, particularly a coroner's jury. The grand jury is sometimes called the grand inquest. See under Grand.

(n.) The finding of the jury upon such inquiry.

(v. t.) To disquiet.

(n.) See Whirlbat.

(n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.

(n.) The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

(n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.

(n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.

(n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.

(n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

(v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

(a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

(a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.

(a.) Present; current.

(adv.) Instantly.

(a.) A point in duration; a moment; a portion of time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment.

(a.) A day of the present or current month; as, the sixth instant; -- an elliptical expression equivalent to the sixth of the month instant, i. e., the current month. See Instant, a., 3.

(n.) A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.

(n.) A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.

(n.) Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception.

(v. t.) To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.

(v. t.) To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend.

(v. t.) Inspection.

(n.) An ecclesiastical who holds but one benefice; -- distinguished from pluralist.

(n.) One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.

(n.) Same as Hylotheist.

(n.) A writer of hymns.

(v. t.) To deprive of existence.

(a.) Alt. of Unbegotten

(a.) Not blest; excluded from benediction; hence, accursed; wretched.

(n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.

(n.) The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

(v. t.) To produce; to bring forward.

(v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.

(v. t.) To produce; to make.

(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.

(n.) An act done afterward.

(n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

(v. t.) To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.

(n.) A large Dutch coasting vessel.

(n.) A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

(adv.) Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot.

(n.) Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct; an injunction; a rule.

(n.) A command in writing; a species of writ or process.

(v. t.) To teach by precepts.

(a.) Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.

(a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.

(n.) One who prays.

(n.) Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

(n.) A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.

(n.) The keeper of a prison.

(v. t.) To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.

(a.) Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.

(a.) Carried forward; advanced.

(n.) See Provand.

(v.) A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them.

(v.) A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary.

(n.) One of the Protista.

(v. t.) To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty.

(v. t.) To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.

(v.) A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament.

(v.) A solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill, or by the nonpayment of the note, as the case may be.

(v. i.) To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration (often a written one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes.

(v. t.) To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.

(n.) One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.

(n.) One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.

(n.) An interpreter; a spokesman.

(n.) A mantis.

(prep.) See Amongst.

(n.) The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

(n.) One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool.

(n.) A foot the toes of which are connected by a membrane.

(n.) Any web-footed bird.

(n.) A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.

(n.) The musk shrew.

(n.) The desman.

(n.) Apit where marl is dug.

(n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

(n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

(v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

(v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

(v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.

(v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

(v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.

(n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

(adv.) On this present or coming night.

(adv.) On the last night past.

(n.) The present or the coming night; the night after the present day.

(n.) The anterior part of the alimentary canal, from the mouth to the intestine, o/ to the entrance of the bile duct.

(n.) A maker of verses.

(n.) The European house martin.

(n.) A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.

(n.) One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot.

(n.) A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

(n.) Alt. of Merchet

(n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

(n.) A margin; border; brink; edge.

(v. t.) To enter or note down upon the margin of a page; to margin.

(v. t.) To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave.

(n.) A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.

(n.) See Mantelet.

(n.) Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage.

(n.) See Manioc.

(n.) Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.

(n.) A careful looking or watching for any object or event.

(n.) The place from which such observation is made.

(n.) A person engaged in watching.

(n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.

(v. t.) To reach; to overtake; to pass.

(v. t.) To get beyond; to get over or recover from.

(a.) Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf.

(a.) Jutting over; projecting; overhanging.

(n.) Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book.

(n.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features.

(n.) One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase.

(n.) A pendulum.

(n.) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.

(adv.) At that place; there.

(adv.) At that occurrence or event; on that account.

(n.) A long, shallow basket, with two handles.

(n.) A small flask.

(n.) A vessel in which viands are served.

(a.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

(imp. & p. p.) of Think

(n.) A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.

(a.) Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

(a.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.

() imp. & p. p. of Think.

(n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.

(n.) Meditation; serious consideration.

(n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.

(n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern.

(n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.

(n.) The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced.

(n.) A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.

(n.) A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns.

(n.) Act of firing a gun; a shot.

(n.) The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.

(a.) Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.

(n.) A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

(n.) One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.

(a.) Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

(a.) Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen.

(n.) A little or young nymph.

(n.) A necklace.

(n.) One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.

(n.) A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an etagere.

(adv.) At which; upon which; whereupon; -- used relatively.

(adv.) At what; -- used interrogatively; as, whereat are you offended?

(n.) A box on the ear.

(a.) Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long.

(n.) A little whiff or puff.

(a.) Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.

(a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.

(n.) A basket; esp., a straw provender basket.

(n.) A small lathe for turning wooden pins.

(a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.

(a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.

(n.) A lenitive; an emollient.

(a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.

(n.) An assailant.

(v. t.) To urge with violence.

(v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.

(n.) A player on the viol.

(n.) A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening.

(n.) A hare in the first year of its age.

(n.) A small lobe; a lobule.

(a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

(a.) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.

(adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.

(adv.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

(v.) Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

(v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

(v.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.

(v.) The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.

(n.) A little bone.

(n.) The internal bone, or shell, of a cuttlefish.

(a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

(a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.

(a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.

(a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

(a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.

(n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

(n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.

(v. t.) To compose, to calm.

(n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.

(a.) Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.

(n.) One versed in patristics.

(n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

(n.) The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.

(n.) A plate which forms the back part of the head of insects.

(n.) An auditory cyst or vesicle; one of the simple auditory organs of many invertebrates, containing a fluid and otoliths; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

(n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

(n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.

(n.) One skilled in treating diseases of the eye.

(n.) Punishment; chastisement.

(v. t.) To surpass in canting.

(a.) Cast out; degraded.

(n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.

(n.) A quarrel; a contention.

(prep.) Except.

(n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

(a.) Rustic, rural.

(v. t.) To surpass in feats.

(imp.) of Outgo

(a.) Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.

(a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.

(a.) Wrong; defective; faulty.

(n.) An offender.

(v. t.) To surpass in jesting; to drive out, or away, by jesting.

(v. t.) To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overset

(v. t.) To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.

(v. t.) To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot.

(v. t.) To fill too full.

(v. i.) To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.

(n.) An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.

(n.) An excess; superfluity.

(a.) Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.

(n.) An outlying part.

(n.) A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade.

(n.) A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy.

(n.) The troops placed at such a station.

(a.) Howling; wailing.

(a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.

(a.) Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.

(n.) A little lake.

(n.) Alt. of Lamaite

(a.) Suckling; giving suck.

(n.) A small tree of the genus Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit used for preserves.

(n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

(n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.

(n.) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.

(n.) A small plug.

(n.) A string of oakum used in calking.

(n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged.

(n.) One who holds that all space is full of matter.

(a.) Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

(a.) Serving to fix colors.

(n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.

(n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.

(n.) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.

(v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.

(n.) An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.

(n.) The barn owl.

(a.) Migratory.

(n.) A migratory bird or other animal.

() of Work

(n.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

() 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.

(n.) A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae.

() imp. & p. p. of Work.

(a.) Worked; elaborated; not rough or crude.

(v. t.) To cast or reckon wrongly.

(n.) An erroneous cast or reckoning.

(n.) Improper.

(v. t.) To diet improperly.

(n.) A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).

(a.) Lowing; bellowing.

(n.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.

(n.) See Indian madder, under Madder.

(a.) Sending forth; emitting.

(adv.) In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.

(n.) A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.

(n.) A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.

(n.) A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides.

(n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.

(n.) Same as Parquetry.

(v. i.) To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.

(n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.

(n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.

(n.) Hence, any weight.

(n.) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.

(v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.

(v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.

(v. i.) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

(n.) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.

(n.) A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff.

(n.) A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers.

(v. i.) Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.

(v. i.) Curs/ry, careless.

(v. i.) Surpassing; excelling.

(v. i.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

(v. t.) To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.

(v. i.) To discourse publicly; to lecture.

(n.) A disciple or follower of Kant.

(n.) A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc.

(n.) See Keelfat.

(a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

(a.) Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.

(n.) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.

(n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.

(a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.

(a.) Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.

(a.) Favorably attentive; propitious.

(a.) Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present.

(a.) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, " Know all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, " per has literas praesentes; " -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular.

(a.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.

(a.) To bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.

(a.) To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.

(a.) To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.

(a.) To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.

(a.) Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.

(a.) To present; to personate.

(a.) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

(a.) To nominate for support at a public school or other institution .

(a.) To lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment.

(a.) To lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or whatever they think to be public injuries.

(a.) To bring an indictment against .

(a.) To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.

(v. i.) To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.

(n.) Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.

(n.) The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.

(n.) A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.

(n.) A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

(n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.

(n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.

(n.) The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.

(n.) A woman's pocket.

(n.) A little king; a weak or insignificant king.

(n.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviidae.

(n.) A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties.

(n.) Excessive wetness.

(n.) A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.

(n.) The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.

(a.) Having the hip dislocated; hence, having one hip lower than the other.

(adv.) In haste; foothot.

(n.) An overcoat.

(n.) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

(a.) Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.

(n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.

(n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.