(n.) A Hindoo caravansary.

(adv.) Angrily.

(v. t.) To convert into English; to anglicize.

(adv.) In an angry manner; under the influence of anger.

(n.) The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage.

(a.) Annual.

(n.) A yearbook.

(n.) A sum of money, payable yearly, to continue for a given number of years, for life, or forever; an annual allowance.

(n.) Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.

(n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.

(n.) The angle measuring apparent irregularities in the motion of a planet.

(n.) Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.

(n.) Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.

(adv.) Oddly; grotesquely.

(n.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

(n.) Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

(n.) Eager desire.

(n.) A state of restlessness and agitation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium.

(n.) Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

(n.) A person of consideration or standing.

(adv.) Openly; clearly.

(n.) Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

(adv.) In an agile manner; nimbly.

(n.) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.

(n.) Activity; powerful agency.

(adv.) In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.

(n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.

(n.) Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.

(n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.

(n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

(v. i.) To offer an apology.

(v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

(v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.

(v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

(v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

(n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

(n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.

(n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

(n.) See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.

(adv.) In an alert manner; nimbly.

(n.) Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft.

(n.) See Popinjay, 1 (b).

(adv.) In a papal manner; popishly

(n.) The papacy.

(n.) A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum.

(n.) The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

(n.) A delicacy; a dainty.

(n.) The power of exciting mirth; comicalness.

(a.) Relating to a cooper; coopered.

(n.) The occupation of a cooper.

(n.) A striped satin made in India.

(a.) Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

(a.) Relating to a church; unduly fond of church forms.

(n.) Alt. of Chutnee

(v. t. & i.) To make chyle of; to be converted into chyle.

(v. t.) To form into chyme.

(n.) The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

(n.) A companion or companions.

(n.) An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.

(n.) Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.

(n.) Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.

(n.) An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.

(n.) Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

(n.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.

(n.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.

(n.) The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.

(v. t.) To accompany or go with; to be companion to.

(v. i.) To associate.

(v. i.) To be a gay companion.

(v. i.) To have sexual commerce.

(a.) Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to or connected with the cilia in animal or vegetable organisms; as, ciliary motion.

(a.) Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.

(a.) Alt. of Compone

(adv.) In a silly manner.

(adv.) Neatly.

(v. t.) To cause to resemble a dandy; to make dandyish.

(n.) Equality.

(adv.) In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly.

(a.) Like a friar; inexperienced.

(n.) Acting force; elasticity.

(a.) Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.

(n.) An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.

(a.) Alt. of Frizzy

(a.) Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

(a.) Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums.

(a.) Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms.

(a.) Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style.

(n.) The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility.

(adv.) In a foggy manner; obscurely.

(n.) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.

(n.) The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.

(n.) An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical.

(v. t.) To make a fool of; to befool.

(n.) The Helots, collectively; slaves; bondsmen.

(v. t.) To dry too much.

(n.) A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.

(n.) See Paduasoy.

(adv.) In a pagan manner.

(a.) Abounding in scrog; also, twisted; stunted.

(superl.) Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur.

(n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

(n.) A chapel or altar so endowed.

(n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.

(n.) A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.

(n.) See Bushman.

(adv.) In a chary manner; carefully; cautiously; frugally.

(n.) Love; universal benevolence; good will.

(n.) Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.

(n.) Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity.

(n.) Whatever is bestowed gratuitously on the needy or suffering for their relief; alms; any act of kindness.

(n.) A charitable institution, or a gift to create and support such an institution; as, Lady Margaret's charity.

(n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions.

(a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.

(n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.

(n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.

(n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

(a.) Ornamented with a large number of buttons.

(adv.) At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.

(n.) A joint ally.

(a.) Gay; cheerful.

(adv.) Cheerily.

(n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.

(n.) A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously.

(a.) Of or relating to, or like, cockneys.

(n.) A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.

(n.) The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.

(adv.) In the first place; principally; preeminently; above; especially.

(adv.) For the most part; mostly.

(a.) Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.

(adv.) Like a child.

(n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.

(a.) Pertaining to, or troubled with, colic; as, a colicky disorder.

(n.) A fireplace or hearth.

(n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.

(n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

(n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.

(n.) A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.

(adv.) In a notable manner.

(v. t.) To buy too much.

(v. t.) To buy at too dear a rate.

(a.) Generating or containing pus; purulent.

(a.) Full of substance or matter; important.

(n.) Theft; cheating.

(a.) Slushy.

(a. & n.) Same as Dimyarian.

(superl.) Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.

(adv.) In a dingy manner.

(adv.) In a smart manner.

(n.) A dioptre.

(adv.) Smugly; finically.

(n.) The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

(n.) Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general.

(n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed.

(n.) The act or state of seeing double.

(adv.) In a smoky manner.

(a.) Dreadful.

(adv.) With dread.

(adv.) In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.

(a.) Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

(v. t.) To part, as an alliance; to sunder.

(adv.) In a state stale manner.

(adv.) Of old; long since.

(a.) Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.

(a.) Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

(adv.) In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.

(adv.) In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.

(a.) Fixed; settled.

(superl.) Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.

(adv.) Majestically; loftily.

(adv.) In truth; truly; really; verily.

(n.) Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.

(v. t.) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

(v. t.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.

(v. i.) To become larger.

(v. i.) To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.

(a.) Making a tumultuous noise.

(n.) A radiate.

(n.) Same as Anagoge.

(n.) A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

(n.) A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.

(n.) Proportion; equality of ratios.

(n.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly.

(n.) Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

(n.) Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.

(n.) The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dissection.

(n.) The science which treats of the structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.

(n.) A treatise or book on anatomy.

(n.) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

(n.) A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so.

(n.) Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

(n.) A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

(n.) The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

(n.) The practice or tenets of a bigot.

(n.) See Anemone.

(a.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.

(n.) Perfect peace of mind, or calmness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

(n.) A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

(n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon.

(n.) A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

(n.) Life development generally.

(n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

(n.) Physiology.

(n.) The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

(n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.

(v. t.) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

(v. i.) To waste away; to dwindle.

(n.) A tanhouse.

(a.) Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

(n.) That which is superadded; augmentation.

(adv.) So as to be heard.

(adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.

(adv.) In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.

(adv.) In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.

(adv.) Directly; flatly; point blank.

(n.) Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

(v. t.) To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

() A manufactory where nails are made.

(adv.) In a nobby manner.

(n.) Maintenance; means of living.

(n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.

(n.) The absence or intermission of fever.

(n.) Wateriness.

(n.) Quakerism.

(v. t.) To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.

(v. t.) To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

(v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.

(v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.

(a.) Contributing to tillage.

(v. t.) To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.

(v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

(v. i.) To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.

(n.) The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.

(n.) Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position.

(n.) That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman.

(n.) An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition.

(n.) Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character.

(n.) A speaking to another; an address.

(n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.

(n.) Archers, or bowmen, collectively.

(n.) The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed.

(a.) Quartzose.

(n.) A way or passage under an arch.

(adv.) Only; merely; singly.

(a.) Exclusive.

(a.) Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.

(a.) Like a queach; thick; bushy.

(n.) Heat.

(n.) Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.

(adv.) Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

(a.) Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.

(adv.) In a queer or odd manner.

(n.) A beehive, or something resembling a beehive.

(n.) The hollow of the external ear.

(a.) Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

(n.) See Embassy, the usual spelling.

(n.) The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness.

(n.) The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness.

(n.) Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought.

(adv.) In an amiable manner.

(v.) Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

(v.) An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

(v. t.) To grant amnesty to.

(adv.) Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.

(adv.) In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.

(adv.) Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.

(adv.) Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.

(adv.) Noiselessly; silently; without remark or violent movement; in a manner to attract little or no observation; as, he quietly left the room.

(a.) Consisting of five; arranged by fives.

(n.) Shapelessness.

(adv.) In a rabid manner; with extreme violence.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.

(a.) Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.

(adv.) In a nasty manner.

(v. t.) The act of battering or beating.

(v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.

(v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.

(v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.

(v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.

(v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

(v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.

(v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

(v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.

(v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

(v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together.

(n.) A tin dinner pail.

(n.) A kind of cloak or surtout.

(adv.) Obscenely; lewdly.

(a.) Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.

(a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

(adv.) Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own.

(adv.) In a beaming manner.

(n.) The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.

(n.) Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.

(a.) Having blotches.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.

(a.) Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.

(a.) Abominable; as, beastly weather.

(adv.) In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

(adv.) Very; excessively.

(v. t.) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

(v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

(v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.

(adv.) In relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line.

(adv.) In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.

(n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

(n.) Beggarly appearance.

(a.) Beggarly.

(n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.

(n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

(n.) A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

(adv.) In a loose, baggy way.

(n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

(n.) A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

(adv.) In a balmy manner.

(v. i.) To enjoy anew.

(n.) A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life.

(n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.

(adv.) In a ruddy manner.

(n.) An uncivil, turbulent fellow.

(n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

(n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.

(n.) Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.

(n.) A retiarius.

(a.) Netlike.

(a.) Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.

(a.) Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.

(n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.

(n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.

(a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.

(a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.

(a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.

(a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.

(v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

(v. i.) To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.

(adv.) In a rural manner; as in the country.

(a.) Of a russet color; russet.

(v. t.) To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.

(adv.) In a rusty state.

(n.) A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret.

(n.) The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.

(n.) The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.

(n.) False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.

(n.) The place where Christ was crucified, on a small hill outside of Jerusalem.

(n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion.

(n.) A cross, set upon three steps; -- more properly called cross calvary.

(v. t. / v. i.) To make or become white, or candied.

(n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

(a.) Like a canker; full of canker.

(a.) Surly; sore; malignant.

(n.) A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on.

(adv.) In a canny manner.

(n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

(a.) A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension.

(a.) A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.

(a.) The consecrated elements in the eucharist.

(a.) Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.

(n.) A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.

(n.) A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century.

(v. t.) To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

(n.) The science of intellectual phenomena.

(n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

(adv.) In a sorry manner; poorly.

(adv.) Gayly; handsomely.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.

(a.) Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

(adv.) In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly.

(adv.) In a regal or royal manner.

(adv.) Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily.

(adv.) Well; thrivingly; prosperously.

(n.) The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.

(n.) The act of braving; defiance; bravado.

(n.) Splendor; magnificence; showy appearance; ostentation; fine dress.

(n.) A showy person; a fine gentleman; a beau.

(a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.

(a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.

(a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.

(n.) Alt. of Rhatanhy

(n.) The art or habit of making rhymes; rhyming; -- in contempt.

(a.) Affected with rickets.

(a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.

(n.) A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

(adv.) In a rapid manner.

(adv.) Straightly; directly; in front.

(adv.) According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

(adv.) Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.

(adv.) According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly.

(v.) In a rigid manner; stiffly.

(v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

(v. t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.

(v. t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.

(v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.

(v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.

(v. t.) To discover; to descry.

(v. i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

(n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.

(n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.

(n.) A boy employed in a shop.

(adv.) In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.

(adv.) In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.

(a.) Unruly; disorderly.

(a.) Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a shower or showers.

(adv.) In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

(a.) Consisting of shreds.

(adv.) In a shrill manner; acutely; with a sharp sound or voice.

(a.) Somewhat shrill.

(a.) Affording shelter.

(superl.) Full of shrubs.

(superl.) Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.

(n.) Dryness; aridity; destitution of moisture.

(adv.) Surely; securely.

(n.) A plant of the Mint family (Origanum Dictamnus), a native of Crete.

(n.) The Dictamnus Fraxinella. See Dictamnus.

(n.) In America, the Cunila Mariana, a fragrant herb of the Mint family.

(a.) Pleasing to the sight; comely.

(a.) Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.

(n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

(n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

(v. t.) To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

(v. t.) To ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.

(v. t.) To put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.

(n.) To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.

(n.) To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken.

(n.) Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.

(n.) Alt. of Sikerness

(n.) the oleander.

(n.) Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron.

(n.) An herb (Epilobium spicatum) with showy purple flowers, common in Europe and North America; -- called also great willow herb.

(adv.) In a silly manner; foolishly.

(a.) Resembling, or having the luster of, silver; grayish white and lustrous; of a mild luster; bright.

(a.) Besprinkled or covered with silver.

(a.) Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound; as, silvery voices; a silvery laugh.

(n.) A kind of dried sausage.

(a.) Savory.

(adv.) In a savory manner.

(adv.) Concisely; in few words.

(a.) Resembling a ladder; formed with steps.

(n.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

(n.) The iron of other agent in cauterizing.

(adv.) In a brisk manner; nimbly.

(a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

(n.) A carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast (Caranx hippos): -- called also horse crevalle. [See Illust. under Carangoid.]

(n.) That part of military force which serves on horseback.

(adv.) In a broad manner.

(adv.) In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.

(adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.

(n.) That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

(a.) Pertaining to ovules.

(v. t.) To exceed in buffoonery.

(adv.) Publicly; openly.

(n.) The business of a broker.

(v. t.) To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.

(v. t.) To stir the surface soil of, as a field.

(adv.) Scarcely; hardly.

(n.) Scenery.

(n.) Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.

(n.) Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.

(n.) The powan.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, schorl; as, schorly granite.

(n.) A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.

(n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.

(n.) A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

(n.) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.

(v. t.) To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.

(n.) Dizziness with dimness of sight.

(n.) Obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye.

(adv.) In a rude or violent manner.

(v. t.) To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.

(v. t.) To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain.

(v. t.) To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify.

(v. t.) To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal.

(superl.) Rough with irregular points; scragged.

(superl.) Lean and rough; scragged.

(n.) Paste used by weavers to dress their webs.

(a.) Thin; lean.

(a.) Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.

(a.) Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency; as, a scrappy lecture.

(n.) Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

(n.) A collection of papal bulls.

(n.) A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

(a.) Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

(v. t.) An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.

(n.) See Bottomery.

(n.) Chandlery.

(adv.) In a naive manner.

(n.) Naivete.

(adv.) In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.

(v. t.) To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent.

(n.) Private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties.

(a.) Of or pertaining to midday; meridional; as, the noonday heat.

(n.) A plantation of the nopal for raising the cochineal insect.

(n.) The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.

(n.) Obscurity; want of clearness.

(a.) Fitted for, or carrying, a burden.

(v. t.) To make tipsy.

(adv.) In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.

(n.) Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.

(n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

(n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.

(n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.

(a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.

(n.) Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery.

(adv.) Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly.

(adv.) Without activity; sluggishly.

(adv.) With a green color; newly; freshly, immaturely.

(a.) Of a green color.

(adv.) In a grimy manner.

(n.) A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, gristle; like gristle; cartilaginous.

(n.) A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

(n.) An object at which stones are flung.

(a.) Somewhat gray; grizzled.

(n.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.

(a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.

(n.) The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.

(n.) A retail grocer's shop or store.

(adv.) In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.

(a.) Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.

(n.) A place where the work of tanning is carried on.

(n.) The art or process of tanning.

(a.) Like gruel; of the consistence of gruel.

(adv.) In a grum manner.

(adv.) Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.

(n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush.

(v. i.) To go away in haste.

(adv.) In a tardy manner; slowly.

(n.) Slowness; tardiness.

(a.) Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces.

(v. t.) To make swarthy.

(n.) Tartarus.

(n.) An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.

(adv.) In a tasty manner.

(n.) That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.

(n.) An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.

(n.) Epibolic invagination. See under Invagination.

(n.) An epidemic disease.

(a.) Same as Streaked, 1.

(a.) Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.

(a.) Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.

(a.) Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

(a.) Irritable; peevish; fretful.

(a.) Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.

(n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.

(n.) The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a feast or banquet.

(adv.) In an equable manner.

(adv.) In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.

(n.) A large stable or lodge for horses.

(n.) An officer of princes or nobles, charged with the care of their horses.

(a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

(a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.

(a.) Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers.

(n.) A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond.

(a.) Droughty.

(adv.) In an erect manner or posture.

(n.) The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

(n.) Government by two persons.

(n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

(adv.) In the manner of a duke, or in a manner becoming the rank of a duke.

(n.) A wandering; state of being in error.

(a.) Full of sprigs or small branches.

(superl.) Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.

(superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.

(n.) A place where rags are bought and kept for sale.

(v. t.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.

(v. t.) Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.

(n.) See Spurry.

(n.) A bridle path.

(a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.

(n.) Concupiscence. [Used only in "Troilus and Cressida"]

(adv.) A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.

(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

(adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.

(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.

(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.

(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.

(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

(a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.

(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.

(n.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.

(a.) Relating or belonging to a court.

(a.) Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.

(a.) Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious.

(adv.) In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

(n.) Pain in the hip.

(n.) Seniority.

(n.) The practice of magic; enchantment.

(n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

(n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

(n.) A place of training; a school.

(n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

(n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music.

(adv.) In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.

(a.) Grave; serious; solemn; sad.

(n.) The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

(n.) Connection; participation; partnership.

(n.) A number of persons associated for any temporary or permanent object; an association for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

(n.) The persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

(n.) Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments.

(adv.) In a crazy manner.

(n.) A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

(n.) Harshness of sound; rough utterance; hoarseness; as, the raucity of a trumpet, or of the human voice.

(n.) Blindness.

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

(n.) The act of rivaling, or the state of being a rival; a competition.

(n.) A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.

(n.) The act or practice of robbing; theft.

(n.) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.

(v. t.) To thank.

(adv.) In a ready manner; quickly; promptly.

(adv.) Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully.

(n.) See Rokelay.

(n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants.

(n.) The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.

(n.) That which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.

(n.) Loyalty; devotion.

(n.) See 2d Realty, 2.

(v. t.) To bring together again; to compose or form anew.

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

(n.) The life of a vargant.

(n.) The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.

(n.) Arch tricks; mischievousness.

(n.) A short cloak.

(n.) A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

(a.) Romantic.

(v. t.) To carry back.

(n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.

(n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.

(n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.

(n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.

(n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.

(n.) A brothel.

(adv.) Spaciously.

(a.) Roomy; spacious.

(n.) A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.

(v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied.

(v. t.) To bail.

(n.) Replevin.

(adv.) In a rough manner; unevenly; harshly; rudely; severely; austerely.

(adv.) In a round form or manner.

(adv.) Openly; boldly; peremptorily; plumply.

(adv.) Briskly; with speed.

(adv.) Completely; vigorously; in earnest.

(adv.) Without regard to detail; in gross; comprehensively; generally; as, to give numbers roundly.

(v. t.) To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.

(v. t.) To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.

(v. t.) To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.

(n.) The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.

(n.) A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.

(adv.) In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king.

(n.) The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty.

(n.) The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty.

(n.) An emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning regalia.

(n.) Kingliness; spirit of regal authority.

(n.) Domain; province; sphere.

(n.) That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality.

(n.) A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property.

(n.) Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.

(n.) The art or practice of divining the destiny of persons by the letters which form their names.

(adv.) In a noisy manner.

(v. t.) To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

(v. t.) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.

(v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

(v. t.) To glorify.

(v. i.) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

(superl.) Like a saint; becoming a holy person.

(v. i.) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.

(n.) Clearness; brightness; splendor.

(superl.) Habitually clean; pure; innocent.

(superl.) Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.

(superl.) Adroit; skillful; dexterous; artful.

(adv.) In a clean manner; neatly.

(adv.) Innocently; without stain.

(adv.) Adroitly; dexterously.

(n.) A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seeds have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used in cookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.

(n.) See Oyster plant (a), under Oyster.

(n.) A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.

(adv.) In a clear manner.

(n.) The literati, or well educated class.

(n.) The clergy, or their opinions, as opposed to the laity.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a clerk.

(adv.) In a scholarly manner.

(n.) State of being a client.

(n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

(v. i.) To form flesh; to become like flesh.

(adv.) In a nasal manner; by the nose.

(a.) Like a carrot in color or in taste; -- an epithet given to reddish yellow hair, etc.

(adv.) In a close manner.

(adv.) Secretly; privately.

(n.) A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes.

(n.) Alt. of Sassabye

(n.) The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation.

(n.) A way or road for carts.

(a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.

(a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.

(a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.

(a.) To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.

(v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.

(v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.

(n.) The government or jurisdiction of a satrap; a principality.

(a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.

(n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.

(n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.

(n.) A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.

(n.) Robbery; extortion.

(n.) The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.

(adv.) In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent boldness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or produced in, a kitchen garden; used for kitchen purposes; as, olitory seeds.

(a.) Like an olive.

(a.) Short and thick; suqabbish.

(n.) Dullness; stupidity.

(v. t.) To make stupid in intellect.

(a.) Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.

(a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.

(a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.

(a.) Easily squashed; soft.

(a.) Squat; dumpy.

(n.) Alt. of Daubry

(a.) Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.

(a.) Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition.

(adv.) In a crisp manner.

(n.) The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

(n.) The residence of a dean.

(n.) The territorial jurisdiction of a dean.

(a.) Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

(adv.) Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

(v. t.) To edify anew; to build again after destruction.

(adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

(v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

(v. t.) To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify.

(v. t.) To vex or torment.

(adv.) In a crude, immature manner.

(n.) The condition of being crude; rawness.

(n.) That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form.

(adv.) In a cruel manner.

(adv.) Extremely; very.

(n.) The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.

(n.) A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing unnecessary pain.

(a.) EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle.

(n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

(n.) That which is proper or becoming.

(a.) Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

(n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.

(n.) A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.

(n.) See Quinsy.

(adv.) In a lasting manner; with long continuance.

(adv.) In a dusky manner.

(n.) Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery.

(adv.) In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.

(n.) Sovereignty; lordship; dominion.

(n.) A race or succession of kings, of the same line or family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers.

(n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

(n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.

(a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

(n.) Exhibition on the stage.

(n.) Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

(adv.) In a staid manner, sedately.

(adv.) In an eager manner.

(n.) An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.

(a.) Covered with gyrons, or divided so as to form several gyrons; -- said of an escutcheon.

(n.) A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.

(n.) A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.

(n.) A horse or pony kept for hire.

(n.) A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.

(n.) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.

(a.) Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.

(v. t.) To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.

(v. t.) To carry in a hackney coach.

(n.) A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments."

(n.) A body of felons; specifically, the convict population of a penal colony.

(adv.) In a techy manner.

(adv.) In a weblike manner.

(n.) An accomplice.

(n.) An ancient officer of the court of wards.

(n.) Medicine; pharmacy.

(n.) The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.

(a.) Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.

(a.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.

(a.) Chastity; modesty.

(a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian.

(v. t.) To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.

(v. t.) To dry by a fire.

(v. t.) To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

(v. t.) To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.

(a.) Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness.

(adv.) In a tossy manner.

(adv.) In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

(a.) Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.

(adv.) In a tough manner.

(v. t.) A tournament.

(n.) To perform in tournaments; to tilt.

(n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

(n.) The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art.

(n.) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority.

(v. t.) To horn; to cuckold.

(v. t.) To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders.

(n.) The business of a hosier.

(n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.

(n.) That part of anatomy which treats of muscles.

(n.) The act or practice of jobbing.

(n.) Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.

(n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

(n.) That which is various.

(n.) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.

(n.) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.

(n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.

(n.) In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.

(n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.

(adv.) In a large manner.

(n.) Vastness.

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

(a.) Resembling vellum.

(a.) Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.

(adv.) In a venal manner.

(n.) A laundering; a washing.

(n.) A place or room where laundering is done.

(a.) Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy.

(a.) Not dressed; undressed.

(v. t.) To undress.

(a.) Causing unrest; disquieting; as, unresty sorrows.

(a.) See Unsely.

(n.) A retention or suppression of urine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands.

(a.) Not soncy (sonsy); not fortunate.

(v. t.) To cause to cease being weary; to refresh.

(n.) The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

(n.) An impious act; an act of wickednes.

(n.) Equal law or right; equal distribution of rights and privileges; similarity.

(n.) See Note under Tea, n., 1.

(n.) Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis).

(n.) The first month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

(a.) Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.

(n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.

(a.) Resembling, or being of the nature of, urine.

(n.) A urinarium; also, a urinal.

(n.) See Uronology.

(n.) The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.

(n.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.

(n.) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.

(adv.) In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.

(n.) The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.

(n.) That which is vacant.

(n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.

(n.) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or thoughts.

(n.) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.

(n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.

(n.) A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.

(n.) The quality or state of being vacuous, or not filled; emptiness; vacancy; as, vacuity of mind; vacuity of countenance.

(n.) Space unfilled or unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid only; emptiness; void; vacuum.

(n.) Want of reality; inanity; nihility.

(n.) A wandering; vagrancy.

(v. i.) A passage or way into or out of any inclosed place; esp., a temporary way of access formed of planks.

(v. i.) In the English House of Commons, a narrow aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.

(n.) Materia medica; the science of remedies.

(n.) A small species of agouti (Dasyprocta acouchy).

(adv.) In an acid manner.

(n.) The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.

(v. i.) The opening through the bulwarks of a vessel by which persons enter or leave it.

(v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist.

(n.) Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.

(n.) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.

(a.) A falsifier of evidence.

(adv.) In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously.

(a.) To make false; to represent falsely.

(a.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.

(a.) To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.

(a.) To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.

(a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.

(a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.

(a.) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.

(a.) To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.

(v. i.) To tell lies; to violate the truth.

(a.) The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

(a.) That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion.

(n.) State of being gaseous.

(n.) Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.

(n.) The whole body of evil spirits.

(adv.) In the sixth place.

(a.) Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.

(a.) Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.

(adv.) In a dizzy manner or state.

(n.) A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.

(adv.) In a slack manner.

(n.) trickery; artifice.

(adv.) In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

(n.) The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.

(n.) A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.

(n.) The holding of slaves.

(adv.) In a sleek manner; smoothly.

(a.) Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

(n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc.

(a.) Slight.

(adv.) In a slimy manner.

(n.) The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

(v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.

(n.) The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.

(n.) Elevation; grandeur.

(n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.

(n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.

(n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.

(n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

(a.) Slouching.

(a.) Full of sloughs, miry.

(a.) Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

(n.) Brightness; luster.

(n.) Endeavor; rffort; tendency.

(n.) State of being in excess.

(n.) A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.

(n.) Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.

(adv.) In a gaudy manner.

(n.) Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

(n.) Fantastic designs.

(v. t.) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

(adv.) In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.

(n.) Folly.

(a.) Having a stench.

(adv.) In a sound manner.

(adv.) Southerly.

(adv.) In a stern manner.

(a.) Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.

(adv.) In a spare manner; sparingly.

(n.) A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

(adv.) In a stiff manner.

(n.) See Inquiry.

(v. t.) To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.

(adv.) In a stony manner.

(n.) Spices, in general.

(n.) A repository of spices.

(adv.) In a spicy manner.

(n.) A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function.

(n.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.

(n.) A sacristy.

(a.) Shaky; rickety.

(a.) Running about; not stationary.

(a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.

(adv.) In a shady manner.

(a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

(a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.

(a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

(n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands.

(a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical.

(a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.

(n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.

(n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security.

(n.) Judicial or penal safe-keeping.

(n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

(n.) The business of a cutler.

(n.) Edged or cutting instruments, collectively.

(superl.) Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.

(superl.) Fit; suitable.

(adv.) In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely.

(n.) The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.

(a.) Forming or resembling a sheath or case.

(adv.) Brightly.

(adv.) At once; absolutely.

(n.) See Dacoit, Dacoity.

(n.) Dementia; loss of mental powers. See Insanity.

(v. t.) To cause loss or damage to; to injure; to impair.

(n.) A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of one line by another.

(n.) Demoniacal influence or possession.

(n.) The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.

(n.) That which is concealed; a secret.

(n.) Seclusion; privacy; retirement.

(n.) The quality of being secretive; fidelity to a secret; forbearance of disclosure or discovery.

(a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

(n.) The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.

(n.) A sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.

(adv.) In a dense, compact manner.

(n.) The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.

(n.) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.

(n.) Depth of shade.

(a.) Pertaining to, or bearing, teeth.

(n.) The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth.

(n.) The bullfinch.

(v. t.) Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws.

(v. i.) To refuse or neglect to obey; to violate commands; to be disobedient.

(a.) Tremulous; shivering.

(a.) Easily broken; brittle; shattery.

(adv.) In the ninth place.

(n.) One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind.

(v. t.) To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.

(n.) Same as Spinny.

(adv.) In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately; as, he stoutly defended himself.

(n.) The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.

(n.) A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.

(n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

(n.) A collective body of monks.

(n.) The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.

(adv.) In a gaunt manner; meagerly.

(n.) A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.

(n.) A scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.

(adv.) In a gelid manner; coldly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to gems.

(n.) A receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.

(adv.) In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.

(adv.) In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

(n.) Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.

(a.) Like, or composed of, treacle.

(n.) That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast.

(n.) The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

(n.) The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. See Chart of The Geological Series.

(n.) A treatise on the science.

(n.) The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.

(n.) That which is obvious, public, or common.

(a.) Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.

(n.) Cheating; deception.

(n.) The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.

(n.) The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.

(n.) The residence or office of an ambassador.

(n.) The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.

(n.) The state of rising above others; a projection.

(n.) Same as Frumenty.

(a.) Furrowed.

(adv.) In a fussy manner.

(v. t.) To convert into acid or vinegar.

(v. i.) To turn acid.

(v. t.) To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.

(v. t.) To sour; to imbitter.

(n.) The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice.

(n.) Operative surgery.

(v. t.) To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

(a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

(a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

(a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

(n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

(n.) The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

(n.) A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

(n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

(n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

(n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

(n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

(n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

(n.) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.

(adv.) In a faded manner.

(a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

(a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.

(a.) A working drift or level.

(n.) An insect that deposits its eggs in plants, and occasions galls, esp. any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera. See Illust. of Gall.

(adv.) In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.

(adv.) In the manner of a fairy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.

(adv.) At night; every night.

(v. t.) To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.

(superl.) Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.

(superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

(adv.) In a ghastly manner; hideously.

(a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to apparitions.

(adv.) Spiritually; mystically.

(a.) Appropriate to a giant.

(n.) The race of giants.

(adv.) In a giddy manner.

(a.) Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.

(v. t.) To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.

(a.) In a musty state.

(adv.) Changeably.

(adv.) In a vague manner.

(n.) The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy.

(n.) See Valence.

(n.) A unit of combining power; a so-called bond of affinity.

(n.) Conveyance by means of a wagon or wagons.

(adv.) In a valid manner; so as to be valid.

(a.) Same as Vallar.

(n.) A wig or wigs; false hair.

(n.) Any cover or screen, as red-tapism.

(adv.) Swiftly; nimbly; quickly.

(a.) Like a lance.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australia and Tasmania, especially the smaller species, as the brush kangaroo (H. Bennettii) and the pademelon (H. thetidis). The wallabies chiefly inhabit the wooded district and bushy plains.

(a.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.

(a.) The shambles; a place of slaughter.

(a.) A laniary, or canine, tooth.

(n.) A boy who distributes or sells newspaper.

(n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.

(n.) Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.

(superl.) Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.

(superl.) Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant.

(adv.) In a weary manner.

(a.) Full of sores; leprous.

(n.) Vermeil.

(a.) Somewhat weazen; shriveled.

(n.) Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.

(v. i.) To make verses.

(v. t.) To relate or describe in verse; to compose in verse.

(v. t.) To turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify the Psalms.

(n.) The act of forging metal into shape.

(n.) The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond.

(n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited.

(a.) Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.

(a.) Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.

(a.) Made of earth; earthy.

(adv.) In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.

(n.) Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.

() Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness.

(n.) Right feeling.

(n.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

(n.) A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.

(n.) The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.

(n.) Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

(n.) The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.

(n.) Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.

(adv.) See Forby.

(v. t.) To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.

(v. t.) To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.

(v. i.) To raise defensive works.

(n.) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.

(n.) Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.

(n.) Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.

(n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.

(v. t.) To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.

(n.) The act, process, or art of casting metals.

(n.) The buildings and works for casting metals.

(n.) Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.

(adv.) In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.

(adv.) Weakly; infirmly.

(a.) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced.

(a.) A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.

(adv.) In a frank manner; freely.

(n.) A frater house. See under Frater.

(a.) Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.

(a.) Having weevils; weeviled.

(superl.) Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.

(superl.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.

(superl.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

(n.) Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

(n.) Selfish pleasure; delight.

(prep.) The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.

(prep.) A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.

(n.) The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of defeat.

(n.) Widowhood.

(adv.) In a legal manner.

(a.) Covered with stubble; stubbled.

(a.) Exhibiting artfulness; trickish.

(n.) Sweet trefoil.

(n.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

(v. t.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

(v. t.) To deprive of material mobility.

(a.) Tending to persuade; suasive.

(v. t.) To make affable or suave.

(n.) Sweetness to the taste.

(n.) The quality of being sweet or pleasing to the mind; agreeableness; softness; pleasantness; gentleness; urbanity; as, suavity of manners; suavity of language, conversation, or address.

(n.) A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's " Henry VI." is an example.

(n.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.

(n.) Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.

(n.) Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.

(n.) A place where tripe is prepared or sold.

(n.) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.

(v. t.) To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.

(v. t.) To make glorious in thought or with the heart, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore.

(n.) Support; aid; cooperation; esp., extraordinary aid in money rendered to the sovereign or to a friendly power.

(n.) Specifically: A sum of money paid by one sovereign or nation to another to purchase the cooperation or the neutrality of such sovereign or nation in war.

(n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.

(n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.

(n.) The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

(adv.) In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

(n.) Alt. of Trolly

(n.) A plant of the genus Cichorium. See Chicory.

(n.) The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy.

(adv.) In succession; afterwards.

(adv.) Righteously.

(adv.) In a sulky manner.

(n.) See Gilthead.

(n.) Sultanry.

(a.) Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

(a.) Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.

(a.) A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

(a.) Of or pertaining to summer; like summer; as, a summery day.

(n.) The height or top of anything.

(n.) The utmost degree; perfection.

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

(n.) The middle part; half; moiety.

(a.) Abounding with willows.

(a.) Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.

(v. t.) To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the character or qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god.

(adv.) In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.

(a.) Unending; endless.

(a.) Not feat; not dexterous; unskillful; clumsy.

(n.) Idiocy.

(n.) Idiocy.

(a.) Not godly; not having regard for God; disobedient to God; wicked; impious; sinful.

(a.) Polluted by sin or wickedness.

(a.) Clumsy; awkward; as, an Unhandy man.

(a.) Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

(a.) In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.

(a.) Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.

(a.) Mischievous; wanton; wicked.

(adv.) In an ignoble manner; basely.

(a.) Incautious; precipitate; heedless.

(n.) The condition of being united; quality of the unique; unification.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a unit or units; relating to unity; as, the unitary method in arithmetic.

(a.) Of the nature of a unit; not divided; united.

(n.) The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.

(n.) Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.

(n.) The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.

(n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

(n.) The Celtic people of Ireland.

(a.) Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.

(a.) Bringing bad luck; ill-omened; inauspicious.

(a.) Mischievous; as, an unlucky wag.

(v. t.) To annul the marriage of; to divorce.

(adv.) Ignobly.

(v. t.) To palsy; to paralyze; to deaden.

(v. t.) To stay beyond or longer than.

(n.) The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner.

(adv.) In a joint manner; together; unitedly; in concert; not separately.

(adv.) In a jolly manner.

(n.) Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment.

(n.) The travel or work of a day.

(n.) Travel or passage from one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life.

(v. i.) To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.

(v. t.) To traverse; to travel over or through.

(n.) Joyance.

(a.) Infested with maggots.

(a.) Full of whims; capricious.

(v. t.) To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.

(v. t.) To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.

(v. t.) To praise highly; to land; to extol.

(v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.

(v. i.) To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.

(v. i.) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

(n.) A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey.

(n.) A passage for pedestrians only.

(n.) The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.

(n.) Folly; foolery.

(n.) An inclosed place for keeping hens.

(v. t.) To foretell.

(n.) A garden of herbs; a cottage garden.

(v. t.) To lay down beforehand.

(v. t.) To waylay. See Forlay.

(n.) Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness.

(n.) Want of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.

(n.) A place where herons breed.

(n.) An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world.

(n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.

(n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.

(n.) Channel in which the tide sets.

(n.) A species of gause, or very silk.

(adv.) In a tight manner; closely; nearly.

(n.) A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.

(n.) A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.

(n.) A place for rearing ferns.

(n.) The art of working in iron.

(n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

(n.) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.

(n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

(adv.) In a tenth manner.

(n.) The awning or covering of a tent.

(n.) The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.

(n.) Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.

(n.) Poverty; indigence.

(n.) Refinement; delicacy.

(a.) Held by, or pertaining to, feudal tenure.

(n.) A tenant who holds his lands by feudal service; a feudatory.

(n.) A feodary. See Feodary.

(adv.) In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.

(a.) Restless; uneasy.

(a.) Fiendlike; monstrous; devilish.

(adv.) In the fifth place; as the fifth in order.

(n.) A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt.

(n.) The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.

(adv.) At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.

(adv.) Completely; beyond recovery.

(adv.) By chance; peradventure; haply.

(adv.) By good fortune; fortunately; luckily.

(adv.) In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.

(adv.) With address or dexterity; gracefully; felicitously; in a manner to success; with success.

(a.) Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.

(n.) A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad.

(a.) Finical; unduly particular.

(adv.) Same as Hardly.

(adv.) Boldly; stoutly; resolutely.

(v. t.) To make terrible.

(v. t.) To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.

(n.) The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.

(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.

(v. i.) To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against.

(v. t.) To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.

(v. t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.

(adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.

(n.) The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

(n.) Concord or agreement in facts, opinions, manners, interests, etc.; good correspondence; peace and friendship; as, good citizens live in harmony.

(n.) A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency; as, a harmony of the Gospels.

(n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.

(n.) The science which treats of their construction and progression.

(n.) See Harmonic suture, under Harmonic.

(n.) Strength; firmness; stability.

(adv.) In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.

(adv.) In a harsh manner; gratingly; roughly; rudely.

(n.) The business or practice of catching fish; fishing.

(n.) A place for catching fish.

(n.) The right to take fish at a certain place, or in particular waters.

(v. t.) To change to fish.

(adv.) In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.

(adv.) Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.

(adv.) Passionately; impatiently.

(adv.) In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.

(superl.) High; lofty; bold.

(superl.) Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.

(superl.) Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.

(n.) A wind instrument, sounded through a reed, and similar in shape to the clarinet, but with a thinner tone. Now more commonly called oboe. See Illust. of Oboe.

(n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).

(a.) Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown.

(n.) A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

(n.) A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.

(v. t.) To narrate or record.

() Alt. of Timothy grass

(n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide.

(n.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.

(a.) Like a young person or thing; young; youthful.

(adv.) In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life.

(adv.) Ignorantly; weakly.

(a.) Young; youthful.

(a.) Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window.

(a.) Soft; unctuous.

(n.) A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.

(a.) Wintry.

(v. t.) To coat or impregnate with zinc.

(a.) Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.

(a.) Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.

(n.) A publication which appears regularly once a month.

(adv.) Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly.

(adv.) As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic.

(adv.) In a moody manner.

(n.) Conduct of one who moons.

(n.) The sexual reproduction of animals.

(n.) Alt. of Zoogony

(n.) The doctrine of the formation of living beings.

(n.) That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

(n.) A treatise on this science.

(n.) The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

(v. t.) To contradict; to gainsay; to deny; to renounce.

(n.) The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

(adv.) In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

(adv.) Closely; concisely.

(n.) A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

(n.) Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.

(v. t.) To render frantic.

(a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

(a.) The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.

(a.) The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.

(a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

(a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.

(a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.

(a.) Earliest formed; fundamental.

(a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

(n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.

(n.) A primary meeting; a caucus.

(n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.

(n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.

(adv.) At first; primarily.

(adv.) In a prime manner; excellently.

(n.) Quality of being first; primitiveness.

(adv.) Previously.

(n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

(n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.

(n.) Concealment of what is said or done.

(n.) A private matter; a secret.

(n.) See Privity, 2.

(n.) Petty theft.

(n.) A place where swine are kept.

(n.) A word of endearment for a girl or woman.

(n.) Petty theft.

(adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.

(a.) Privacy; secrecy; confidence.

(a.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.

(a.) A private matter or business; a secret.

(a.) The genitals; the privates.

(a.) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

(n.) Plunder; pillage.

(n.) A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.

(v. t.) To set in, or punish with, the pillory.

(v. t.) Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.

(a.) Like a pillow.

(n.) Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot.

(n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

(n.) A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.

(n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

(v. t.) To place in jelly.

(adv.) In a human manner; after the manner of men; according to the knowledge or wisdom of men; as, the present prospects, humanly speaking, promise a happy issue.

(adv.) Kindly; humanely.

(n.) The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.

(n. / interj.) Alt. of Good-bye

(n.) A place for keeping geese.

(n.) The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.

(a.) Full of, or given to, gossip.

(n.) A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.

(adv.) In a gouty manner.

(adv.) In a sweet manner.

(n.) The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.

(n.) Things or forms made by a turner, or in the lathe.

(n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.

(n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.

(v. i.) Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.

(adv.) In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.

(v. t.) To surfeit.

(n.) Deafness.

(n.) One to be sure of, or to be relied on.

(a.) Decent; orderly.

(adv.) Decently; in order.

(n.) See Sweeny.

(n.) The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

(n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

(adv.) In a surly manner.

(a.) Whisking.

(n.) A storehouse or repository for grain, esp. after it is thrashed or husked; a cornbouse; also (Fig.), a region fertile in grain.

(adv.) In a grand manner.

(n.) Same as Synanthesis.

(n.) A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

(n.) Combined action

(n.) the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.

(n.) An effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. Also synergism.

(n.) Brevity; conciseness.

(v. t.) To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.

(v. t.) To requite; to recompense.

(adv.) In a grave manner.

(n.) The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving.

(a.) The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.

(a.) Sobriety of character or demeanor.

(a.) Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.

(a.) The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.

(a.) Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness.

(n.) The trumpet fly.

(adv.) In a great degree; much.

(adv.) Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously.

(adv.) More within.

(n.) Same as Tramroad.

(n.) A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

(n.) A country in Central Europe, now a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

(n.) The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

(n.) Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries.

(n.) Adynamia.

(adv.) In a husky manner; dryly.

(adv.) In an affable manner; courteously.

(n.) Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.

(a.) Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.

(v. t.) To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.

(v. t.) To adorn with pictures.

(n.) Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.

(n.) Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.

(n.) A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.

(adv.) In a pious manner.

(n.) Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.

(n.) The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.

(n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.

(n.) Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.

(adv.) In a modal manner.

(a.) Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.

(a.) Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

(n.) Modesty; shamefacedness.

(n.) The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

(n.) The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

(n.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.

(n.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

(n.) The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.

(n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.

(adv.) In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.

(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

(a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

(a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

(a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder.

(n.) The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

(n.) The place where earthen vessels are made.

(n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

(n.) The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence.

(n.) One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.

(n.) A boy who carries letters from the post.

(adv.) In a prosy manner.

(n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

(v. t.) To copy amiss.

(n.) A mistake in copying.

(adv.) In a prone manner or position.

(n.) Proneness; propensity.

(n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

(n.) Specifically, the philosopher's stone.

(n.) The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.

(n.) The dress or disguise of a maske/; masquerade.

(n.) The art or occupation of a mason.

(n.) The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry.

(n.) That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.

(n.) The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry.

(n.) The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

(n.) Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.

(n.) Contest for superiority.

(n.) A masterly operation; a feat.

(adv.) In a lying manner; falsely.

(v. i.) To make verse.

(adv.) In a lusty or vigorous manner.

(a.) Full of marrow; pithy.

(n.) The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, or to duty, love, etc.

(a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

(adv.) In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.

(v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.

(v. t.) Hence: Good night; good-by.

(adv.) In a lowly place or manner; humbly.

(adv.) In a loyal manner; faithfully.

(n.) The quality of being lucent.

(adv.) In a lucid manner.

(a.) Manual.

(n.) An artificer.

(n.) A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.

(n.) Allotment; thing allotted.

(adv.) In a lousy manner; in a mean, paltry manner; scurvily.

(adv.) In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.

(adv.) Same as Mesially.

(n.) Leprosy.

(adv.) In a mangy manner; scabbily.

(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.

(n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.

(n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.

(n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.

(v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury.

(n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.

(n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

(v. t.) To pity.

(adv.) In a loose manner.

(n.) The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.

(a.) Loobylike; awkward.

(adv.) Awkwardly.

(n.) A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.

(n.) The art or trade of a jeweler.

(n.) Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.

(adv.) With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.

(adv.) Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.

(adv.) Without deep impression.

(adv.) In a small degree; slightly; not severely.

(adv.) With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.

(adv.) Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.

(adv.) Commonly; usually.

(adv.) Without dejection; cheerfully.

(adv.) Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.

(adv.) Not chastely; wantonly.

(v. t.) To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.

(v. i.) To become wood.

(adv.) In a penal manner.

(n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.

(adv.) In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

(n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.

(n.) A handicap.

(v. t.) To make excessively joyful; to gratify extremely.

(n.) Excessive joy; transport.

(v. t.) To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

(v. t.) To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.

(v. t.) To put an overlay on.

(n.) A covering.

(n.) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

(imp.) of Overlie

(a.) Alt. of Mouldery

(adv.) In a heady or rash manner; hastily; rashly; obstinately.

(n.) The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.

(n.) Clear space under an arch, girder, and the like, sufficient to allow of easy passing underneath.

(superl.) Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.

(superl.) Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.

(superl.) Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

(n.) Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.

(n.) Therapeutics.

(adv.) By that; by that means; in consequence of that.

(adv.) Annexed to that.

(adv.) Thereabout; -- said of place, number, etc.

(n.) A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

(n.) A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites.

(n.) In later or modern magic, that species of magic in which effects are claimed to be produced by supernatural agency, in distinction from natural magic.

(adv.) In a thick manner; deeply; closely.

(adv.) In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.

(adv.) As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.

(a. & adv.) Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.

(adv.) In the third place.

(n.) Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.

(n.) Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.

(a.) Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.

(a.) Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.

(adv.) In a fleet manner; rapidly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal.

(a.) Animal; not/vegetable.

(a.) Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine.

(a.) Carnal; wordly; lascivious.

(adv.) In a fleshly manner; carnally; lasciviously.

(a.) Fleeting; swift; transient.

(a.) Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disordered fancies and extravagant conduct; volatile; giddy; eccentric; slighty delirious.

(a.) Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, thread.

(superl.) Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.

(superl.) Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.

(superl.) Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.

(superl.) Secured by thrift; well husbanded.

(superl.) Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming.

(a.) Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice.

(adv.) In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.

(a.) Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.

(n.) Novelty; new things.

(n.) The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.

(n.) Something novel; a new or strange thing.

(n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.

(n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.

(a.) To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

(n.) The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

(n.) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists.

(n.) That which is null.

(a.) Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan.

(a.) Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community.

(a.) Performed in good or established order; well-regulated.

(a.) Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.

(adv.) According to due order; regularly; methodically; duly.

(n.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service.

(n.) A street sweeper.

(superl.) Having little or nothing.

(superl.) Worthless; bad; good for nothing.

(superl.) hence, corrupt; wicked.

(superl.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.

(a.) Of or relating to coins or money.

(n.) A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.

(n.) The act of nursing.

(n.) The place where nursing is carried on

(n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.

(n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.

(n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

(n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

(n.) That which is nursed.

(n.) A kind of transparent light muslin.

(v. t.) To make neat.

(a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.

(n.) Brightness or strength of color.

(n.) The science or description of mountains.

(n.) A band of rich embroidery, wholly or in part of gold, affixed to vestments, especially those of ecclesiastics.

(n.) The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.

(n.) That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.

(adv.) In a needy condition or manner; necessarily.

(adv.) Of necessity.

(n.) Censorious speech; defamatory language; language that casts contempt on men or their actions; blame; reprehension.

(n.) Cause of reproach; disgrace.

(a.) Possessing only small coins; impoverished.

(adv.) In a legible manner.

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

(adv.) By what; how; -- used interrogatively.

(n.) Alt. of Whimsy

(v. t.) To fill with whimseys, or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.

(n.) Same as Whisky, a liquor.

(n.) Alt. of Whisky

(n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley.

(superl.) Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.

(adv.) In a whist manner; silently.

(n.) An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.

(a.) Like, or coming near to, white.

(n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.

(a.) Becoming or like a widow.

(n.) Face; countenance.

(a.) Linear.

(adv.) In a vital manner.

(v. t.) To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.

(v. t.) To become glass; to be converted into glass.

(n.) Manner of supporting or continuing life or vegetation.

(adv.) In an even or level manner.

(n.) Alt. of Linkman

(a.) Like a vixen; vixenish.

(adv.) In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.

(adv.) In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.

(v. t.) To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.

(v. i.) To become liquid.

(n.) The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection.

(n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.

(n.) A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.

(n.) Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe.

(n.) The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised.

(n.) A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison.

(n.) A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty.

(n.) The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing.

(n.) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.

(n.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore.

(n.) A considerable collection of books kept for use, and not as merchandise; as, a private library; a public library.

(n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.

(adv.) In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.

(a.) Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.

(a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass.

(n.) Voluptuousness.

(a.) Loathsome.

(adv.) Unwillingly; reluctantly.

(adv.) (/) So as to cause loathing.

(adv.) With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

(n.) Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery.

(n.) The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns.

(n.) Hence, used with the possessive pronoun, the title of an emperor, king or queen; -- in this sense taking a plural; as, their majesties attended the concert.

(n.) Dignity; elevation of manner or style.

(n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural.

(n.) Obsequiousness.

(n.) The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.

(n.) The state of being patent or evident.

(n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.

(n.) The mouth of a river; an estuary.

(n.) One who keeps the door, especially the door of a church; a porter.

(n.) A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.

(n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.

(n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.

(a.) Pot-bellied.

(n.) The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; optic; as, oculary medicines.

(v. t.) To exceed in braying.

(v. t.) To emit with great noise.

(adv.) Utterly; entirely.

(adv.) Toward the outside.

(v. t.) To pay too much to; to reward too highly.

(v. t.) To ply to excess; to exert with too much vigor; to overwork.

(n.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.

(v. t.) To say over; to repeat.

(v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.

(v. t.) To exceed or excel in prayer.

(adv.) In a plain manner; clearly.

(adv.) Darkly; gloomily.

(n.) The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.

(n.) Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.

(n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency.

(n.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites.

(n.) Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.

(n.) An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side.

(a.) Consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth; double.

(a.) Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft.

(a.) Milky; full of white juice like milk.

(n.) a dairyhouse.

(n.) A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.

(a.) Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority.

(n.) Decisive procedure.

(n.) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.

(v.) False swearing.

(v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.

(n.) The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.

(adv.) In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.

(adv.) According to moral rules; virtuously.

(adv.) In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.

(adv.) In a manner calculated to serve as the basis of action; according to the usual course of things and human judgment; according to reason and probability.

(a.) Marshy; fenny.

(a.) Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior.

(adv.) In the manner of a woman; with the grace, tenderness, or affection of a woman.

(n.) A sword.

(n.) Linsey-woolsey.

(adv.) In a wordy manner.

(a.) Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.

(a.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.

(a.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.

(n.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.

(adv.) In a milky manner.

(v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

(v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.

(v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.

(v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.

(v. i.) To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.

(v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

(v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.

(a.) Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.

(a.) Pertaining to this world or life, in contradistinction from the life to come; secular; temporal; devoted to this life and its enjoyments; bent on gain; as, worldly pleasures, affections, honor, lusts, men.

(a.) Lay, as opposed to clerical.

(adv.) With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.

(n.) The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.

(n.) Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.

(a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, mother (in vinegar).

(a.) Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths.

(adv.) In a movable manner or condition.

(a.) Full of wrinkles; having a tendency to be wrinkled; corrugated; puckered.

(adv.) In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives.

(adv.) In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.

(a.) Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

(n.) The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.

(n.) A new doctrine; esp. (Theol.), a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.

(a.) Unruly.

(n.) See Mystery, a trade.

(adv.) With mist; darkly; obscurely.

(n.) Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.

(n.) Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies.

(v. t.) To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.

(v. t.) To cleanse.

(adv.) In a mixed or mingled manner.

(v. t.) To cross or pass over by flight.

(n.) Alt. of Ploughboy

(n.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.

(n.) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.

(adv.) Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve.

(n.) Superabundance; excess; plethora.

(n.) An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.

(n.) A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.

(n.) An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

(v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.

(v. t.) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.

(v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

(v. i.) Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

(adv.) In a petty manner; frivolously.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.

(a.) To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.

(a.) To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear.

(a.) To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.

(a.) To prove; to ratify; to confirm.

(a.) To make even or true, as lines of type, by proper spacing; to adjust, as type. See Justification, 4.

(v. i.) To form an even surface or true line with something else; to fit exactly.

(v. i.) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self as bail or surety.

(n.) The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.

(n.) The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries.

(n.) Prelacy.

(adv.) In a pithy manner.

(n.) The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action.

(n.) Roguish or mischievous tricks.

(n. & a.) A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

(n.) A religious festival.

(n.) A secular festival; a holiday.

(n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry.

(n.) A conclusion; a result.

(n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

(n.) A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.

(n.) A small saddle horse for ladies.

(a.) Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.

(n.) The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

(a.) Palmar.

(a.) Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.