(n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.

(n.) The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.

(n.) Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.

() A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.

(v. t.) To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction.

(v. t.) To refuse strongly and solemnly to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like; to disclaim; to disown; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.

(v. t.) To deny; to show the contrary of; to disprove.

(adv.) In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.

(n.) A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain.

(n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

(v. t.) To endow again.

(n.) A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.

(n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.

(n.) A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose.

(v. t.) To curse; to execrate.

(v. t.) To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle.

(n.) In any animal, esp. of the Herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.

(n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.

(v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.

(v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.

(v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.

(v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.

(v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.

(v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.

(v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.

(v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

(v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.

(n.) The act of swallowing.

(n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.

(n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.

(n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.

(n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.

(n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.

(a.) To grow together.

(n.) The safflower.

(n.) A present or bonus; -- originally applied to that paid on ships which entered the port of Canton.

(v. t.) To give or make a present to.

(v. t.) To draw the screws from; to loose from screws; to loosen or withdraw (anything, as a screw) by turning it.

(v. t.) To deprive of sinews or of strength.

(n.) See Daw, n.

(n.) The merganser.

(v. t.) To throw up.

(n.) See Throw, n., 9.

(n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.

(n.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge.

(superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.

(superl.) Not deep in tone.

(superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.

(n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.

(n.) The rudd.

(v. t.) To make shallow.

(v. i.) To become shallow, as water.

(n.) The brow or hairy arch above the eye.

(v. t.) To delay; to hinder; to neglect; to put off.

(v. i.) To loiter.

(v. t.) To hew or cut in front.

(n.) A saw used with one hand.

(n.) The European polecat (Putorius foetidus). See Polecat.

(n.) A row or line of hay raked together for the purpose of being rolled into cocks or heaps.

(n.) Sheaves of grain set up in a row, one against another, that the wind may blow between them.

(n.) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it.

(v. t.) To arrange in lines or windrows, as hay when newly made.

(n.) a paragraph mark, /.

(n.) A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

(n.) The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow.

(v. t.) To survey; to make a survey of.

(n.) A survey.

(v. t.) To strengthen, as with sinews; to invigorate.

(v. t.) To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows.

(n.) One of the eggs or young larvae deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.

(n.) The American black bear. See Bear.

(n.) The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one.

(n.) See Ha-ha.

(n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw.

(a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.

(a.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.

(n.) A contraction of the muscles of the jaw by which its motion is suspended; a variety of tetanus.

(v. t.) To draw out; to extract.

(n.) A flowing out; efflux.

(v. i.) To flow out.

(imp.) of Outfly

(imp.) of Outgrow

(v. t.) To surpass in growing; to grow more than.

(v. t.) To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

(imp.) of Oversee

(v. t.) To sow where something has already been sown.

(n.) A scurfy eruption.

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

(n.) See Wou-wou.

(v. t.) To have a mistaken notion of or about.

(v. i.) To think wrongly.

(v. t.) To foreshow.