(a.) Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer.

(n.) An aneroid barometer.

(n.) A substance obtained from the volatile oils of anise, fennel, etc., in the form of soft shining scales; -- called also anise camphor.

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

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Anger

(adv.) Angrily.

(n.) A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Angle

(n.) The act of one who angles; the art of fishing with rod and line.

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

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Affix

(pl. ) of Affix

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

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

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

(p. p. & a.) Afflicted.

(n.) Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

(v. t.) To distress with extreme pain or grief.

(a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

(a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

(a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.

(n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

(n.) An aquatic bird of the southern United States (Platus anhinga); the darter, or snakebird.

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

(v. t.) To reenforce; to strengthen.

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

(n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.

(pl. ) of Abaculus

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

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

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

(n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.

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

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

(p. pr.) of Affy

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

(v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

(v. t.) To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

(n.) Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.

(v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

(v. t.) To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

(v. t.) To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.

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

(n.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.

(n.) An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

(a.) Made from, or of the nature of, aniline.

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

(v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

(v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.

(v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.

(a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

(n.) The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

(n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter.

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

(a.) Alt. of Animous

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

(n.) The seed of the anise; also, a cordial prepared from it.

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

(a.) Alt. of Annelidan

(imp. & p. p.) of Annex

(n.) One who annexes.

(n.) Alt. of Arnotto

(n.) A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Annoy

(n.) One who, or that which, annoys.

(a.) Annual.

(n.) A yearbook.

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

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

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.

(a.) Banded or marked with circles.

(n.) A little ring.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Serving to assuage pain; soothing.

(a.) Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.

(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.

(a.) Alt. of Anopsy

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

(a.) Not according to rule; abnormal.

(n.) Loss of the sense of smell.

(a.) Having a handle.

(n.) A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent.

(a.) Counteractive of acidity.

(n.) A preceding act.

(n.) An ornament fixed upon a frieze.

(n.) An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof.

(n.) An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

(n.) A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually four in the latter. They are used as organs of touch, and in some species of Crustacea the cavity of the ear is situated near the basal joint. In insects, they are popularly called horns, and also feelers. The term in also applied to similar organs on the heads of other arthropods and of annelids.

() A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

(imp. & p. p.) of Array

(n.) One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered.

(a.) Resembling a flower; flowerlike.

(n.) A carbuncle.

(n.) A malignant pustule.

(n.) A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]

(n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

(n.) "That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.

(n.) The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.

(n.) The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

(n.) The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival.

(n.) An approach.

(imp. & p. p.) of Arrive

(n.) One who arrives.

(pl. ) of Arroyo

(n.) A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

(n.) A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches.

() of Antic

(n.) A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.

(n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.

(n.) Subject; matter; concern; distinct.

(n.) A distinct part.

(n.) A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.

(n.) Precise point of time; moment.

(n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.

(n.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage.

(n.) To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.

(n.) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.

(n.) To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.

(v. i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.

(adv.) Oddly; grotesquely.

(n.) A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

(n.) One who professes and practices some liberal art; an artist.

(n.) One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.

(n.) One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

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

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

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

(a.) Nearest the stern.

(adv.) Toward the stern.

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

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

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

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

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

(n.) A man skilled in an art or in arts.

(n.) One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

(n.) A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum.

(n.) A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

(n.) A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

(a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

(n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

(a.) Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.

(a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe.

(a.) Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

(a.) Odd; fantastic.

(a.) In general, anything very old; but in a more limited sense, a relic or object of ancient art; collectively, the antique, the remains of ancient art, as busts, statues, paintings, and vases.

(n. pl) Alt. of Antoecians

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

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

(a.) Alt. of Ascitical

(v. t.) To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.

(v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.

(a.) See Adscript.

(a.) Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.

(n.) An aseptic substance.

(a.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

(a.) Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.

(n.) A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.

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

(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.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A person of consideration or standing.

(n.) Goutweed.

(n.) Alt. of Assinego

(a.) Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.

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

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

(a.) cryptogamous.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, agate.

(v. t.) To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.

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

(n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.

(n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

(adv.) Alt. of Askant

(v. t.) To turn aside.

(a.) Not sounding or sounded.

(adv.) Anywise; at all.

(adv.) In any wise or way; at all.

(n.) An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

(n.) Same as Appanage.

(n.) A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

(n.) Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

(n.) The state of being an ape.

(adv.) Openly; clearly.

(pl. ) of Apery

(v. t.) To favor; to grace.

(n.) Grace; favor.

(a.) To please.

(v. t.) To make heavy; to aggravate.

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

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

(n.) Aggression.

(v. t.) To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

(v. t.) To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character.

(n.) Alt. of Asphaltum

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

(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.

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

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Agistor

(n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

(n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.

(v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

(v. t.) To move or actuate.

(v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.

(v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

(v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

(n.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses.

(n.) Alt. of Aphasy

(a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.

(pl. ) of Aphelion

(n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

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

(a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form.

(n. pl.) See Aphis.

(pl. ) of Aphis

(n.) Alt. of Aphony

(a.) Alt. of Aphonous

(n.) See under Calcite.

(n. pl.) Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

(adv.) In pieces or to pieces.

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

(a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

(a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

(n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

(n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.

(pl. ) of Agnus

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

(v. i.) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.

(v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.

(v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

(pl. ) of Agony

(n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

(n.) A hook or clasp.

(n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

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

(n.) The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

(n.) A cutting off; abscission.

(adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

(n.) One of the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

(a.) Apodal; apod.

(a.) Apogean.

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

(a.) Apogean.

(a.) Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a portion of the horn of the hyoid bone.

(a.) Without female organs; male.

(adv.) Alt. of Ablins

(n.) Aid.

(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.

(a.) Helpless; without aid.

(n.) A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet.

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

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

(n.) Apoplexy.

(pl. ) of Aporia

(a.) Without pores.

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

(a.) Resembling air.

(n.) A thoughtless, gay person.

(adv.) Alt. of Airwards

(n.) Alt. of Apostille

(n.) Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.

(n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

(n.) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.

(n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

(adv. & a.) According to the fashion or prevailing mode.

(n.) A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode.

(a.) To the death; mortally.

(n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

(n.) See Inulin.

(imp. & p. p.) of Alarm

(a.) Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty.

(n.) The perpendicular from the center to one of the sides of a regular polygon.

(n.) A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.

(n.) The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between Ã2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

(n.) The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone.

(n.) Alt. of Alaternus

(n.) The state of being winged.

(pl. ) of Albino

(n.) External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.

(n.) A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

(n.) The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

(v. t.) To make or get (something) ready; to prepare.

(v. t.) To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

(v. t.) To dress or clothe; to attire.

(v. t.) To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental; to deck; to embellish; as, trees appareled with flowers, or a garden with verdure.

(n.) The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

(n.) The white of an egg.

(n.) Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

(n.) Same as Albumin.

(n.) A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.

(n.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

(v. t.) To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

(n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

(n.) The warden, or keeper of a jail.

(n.) An oriental shrub (Lawsonia inermis) from which henna is obtained.

(n.) Same as Alcaid.

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Alcohate

(n.) An impalpable powder.

(n.) The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.

(n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

(n.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.

(v. t.) To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to still; to pacify; to dispel (anger or hatred); as, to appease the tumult of the ocean, or of the passions; to appease hunger or thirst.

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

(n.) Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma).

(n.) Peril.

(v. t.) To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign.

(v. t.) To praise by words; to express approbation of; to commend; to approve.

(v. i.) To express approbation loudly or significantly.

(n.) An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.

(adv.) At full length; lengthwise.

(n.) A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse.

(adv.) In an alert manner; nimbly.

(a.) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

(a.) Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

(a.) Same as Acerose.

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

(a.) Without antennae, as some insects.

(a.) Pertaining to a heap.

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

(n.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.

(imp. & p. p.) of Admire

(a.) Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

(a.) Wonderful; also, admirable.

(n.) One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

(v. i.) To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.

(v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.

(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.

(n.) A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

(n.) A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.

(n.) The vase in which the holy oil for chrism, unction, or coronation is kept.

(n.) Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

(n.) The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

(n.) Alt. of Assapanic

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

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

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amuse

(a.) Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

(a.) Having power to amuse or entertain the mind; fitted to excite mirth.

(n.) A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atom or radical.

(n.) One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

(a.) Alt. of Amyloidal

(n.) A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

(n.) The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

(n.) One of the starch group (C6H10O5)n of the carbohydrates; as, starch, arabin, dextrin, cellulose, etc.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Assay

(n.) One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver.

(n.) Same as Assagai.

(n.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

(a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

(a.) Of or pertaining to anaemia.

(n.) An elevation of mind to things celestial.

(n.) The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.

(n.) Same as Anagoge.

(n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

(v. t.) To anagrammatize.

(v. t.) See Asseverate.

(v. t.) To besiege.

(n.) A siege.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assize

(n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

(v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.

(v. i.) To abate or subside.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assume

(a.) Supposed.

(a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

(n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes.

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

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

(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.) Alt. of Analyser

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

(v. t.) To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

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

(n.) A verse composed of such feet.

(n.) 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.) An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assure

(a.) Made sure; safe; insured; certain; indubitable; not doubting; bold to excess.

(n.) One whose life or property is insured.

(n.) One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

(n.) One who takes out a life assurance policy.

(v.) See Assuage.

(a.) Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.

(n.) Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ducks; ducklike.

(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.) Native carbonate of soda; natron.

(n.) Glass gall or sandiver.

(n.) Saltpeter.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Astone

() of Astone

(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.

(a.) Stunned; astounded; astonished.

() of Astound

(a.) To stun; to stupefy.

(a.) To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear.

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Experienced; versed.

(a.) Former; sometime.

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

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

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

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

(n.) An ensign or flag.

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

(n.) A maidservant; a handmaid.

(pl. ) of Ancon

(a.) Alt. of Anconeal

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

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

(a.) Concise; contracted.

(adv.) With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

(a.) Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto.

(n.) A movement or piece in andante time.

(n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.

(n.) Alt. of Androides

(a.) Resembling a man.

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

(n.) Same as Anlace.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

(n.) The sea anemone. See Actinia, and Sea anemone.

(n.) See Anemone.

(a.) Without columns or pilasters.

(adv.) Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places.

(pl. ) of Asylum

(prep.) After.

(n.) See Yataghan.

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

(adv.) Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.

(n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

(n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

(n.) A workshop; a studio.

(n.) A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat.

(n.) The disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

(n.) Godlessness.

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

(n.) A godless person.

(v. t.) To render atheistic or godless.

(v. i.) To discourse, argue, or act as an atheist.

(a.) Atheistic; impious.

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

(a.) Wanting drink; thirsty.

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

(n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

(n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

(n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

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

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

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

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

(pl. ) of Atlas

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

(n.) The doctrine of atoms. See Atomic philosophy, under Atomic.

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

(v. t.) To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Atone

(v. t.) To outrun.

(n.) Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

(n.) A kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

(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.) Same as Atropine.

(n.) See Atabal.

() Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

(v. t.) One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy.

(n.) A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.

(v.) A touch or hit.

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

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

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

(v.) An infecting influence.

(v. t.) To taste or cause to taste.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. t.) To touch lightly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attire

(p. p.) Provided with antlers, as a stag.

(n.) One who attires.

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

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

(n.) Attraction.

(a.) Rubbed; worn by friction.

(a.) Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attune

(n.) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

(n.) That which is superadded; augmentation.

(n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

(n.) The things sold by auction or put up to auction.

(v. t.) To sell by auction.

(a.) Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

(n.) That which may be heard.

(adv.) So as to be heard.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Audit

(a.) A hearer or listener.

(a.) A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

(a.) One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.

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

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

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

(n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Augur

(a.) Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.

(n.) An augur.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.

(a.) Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

(a.) Combined with auric acid.

(a.) Having ears. See Aurited.

(a.) Golden; gilded.

(n.) Alt. of Aureole

(n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

(n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

(n.) A halo, actual or figurative.

(n.) See Areola, 2.

(n.) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.

(n.) The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

(n.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.

(n.) An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.

(a.) Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.

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

(pl. ) of Aurora

(pl. ) of Aurora

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.

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

(a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.

(a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.

() Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

() Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

() Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abet

(n.) Abetment.

(n.) Alt. of Abettor

(n.) One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender.

(a.) Being in a state of abeyance.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abide

(n.) He who, or that which, applies.

(n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

(n.) An ensign; a standard bearer.

(n.) An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

(n.) Alt. of Algaroth

(adv.) Always; wholly; everywhere.

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

(adv.) Notwithstanding; yet.

(n.) The true gazelle.

(n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.

(n.) A treatise on this science.

(a.) Producing cold.

(imp. & p. p.) of Apply

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(a.) Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

(n.) An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

(n.) See Henna.

(pl. ) of Alias

(n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument

(n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.

(n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another.

(a.) Wing-shaped; winglike.

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

(n.) An allowance for maintenance.

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

(v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.

(n.) Notice; information.

(v. t.) To appraise; to value; to appreciate.

(n.) Trial; proof.

(n.) Approval; commendation.

(v. t.) To show to be real or true; to prove.

(v. t.) To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

(v. t.) To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

(v. t.) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of; as, we approve the measured of the administration.

(v. t.) To make or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

(v. t.) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit; -- said esp. of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.

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

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

(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.

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

(adv. & a.) From another source; from elsewhere; as, a case proved aliunde; evidence aliunde.

(n.) The madder of the Levant.

(n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.

(n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

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

(pl. ) of Alkali

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

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

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

(a.) Wearing an apron.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.

(n. pl.) See Apsis.

(pl. ) of Apsis

(a.) Apterous.

(a.) Without lateral columns; -- applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral.

(n.) One of the Aptera.

(n. pl.) Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliae.

(imp. & p. p.) of Allay

(n.) One who, or that which, allays.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages.

(n.) The absence or intermission of fever.

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

(pl. ) of Aquarium

(a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

(n.) An aquatic animal or plant.

(n.) Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.

(imp. & p. p.) of Allege

(n.) One who affirms or declares.

(a.) Brisk, lively.

(n.) An allegro movement; a quick, sprightly strain or piece.

(n.) Wateriness.

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

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

(n.) The north wind.

(n.) A South American bird, of the genus Pleroglossius, allied to the toucans. There are several species.

(n.) A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

(n.) An ally; a confederate.

(n.) Plowing; tillage.

(a.) Contributing to tillage.

(n.) Totality; completeness.

(n.) A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

(n.) Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.

(v. t.) To act as arbiter between.

(n.) A crossbow. See Arbalest.

(v.) A thrust or pass; a lunge.

(v.) A slip of paper attached to a bill of exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider.

(v. i.) To thrust with a sword; to lunge.

(n.) The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

(n.) A work published under the name of some one other than the author.

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

(a.) Furnished with an arbor; lined with trees.

(n.) A small tree or shrub.

(n.) Alt. of Arbute

(imp. & p. p.) of Allow

(n.) An approver or abettor.

(n.) One who allows or permits.

(n.) An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

(a.) Furnished with an arcade.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arch

(imp. & p. p.) of Alloy

(imp. & p. p.) of Allude

(imp. & p. p.) of Allure

(n.) One who, or that which, allures.

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

(pl. ) of Alluvium

(n.) Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ally

(n.) Alt. of Almadie

(n.) A bark canoe used by the Africans.

(n.) A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

(n.) A fine, deep red ocher, somewhat purplish, found in Spain. It is the sil atticum of the ancients. Under the name of Indian red it is used for polishing glass and silver.

(n.) The arched part of a structure.

(n.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging.

(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.

(n.) One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

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

(n.) A recipient of alms.

(n.) A giver of alms.

(n.) A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

(n.) The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.

(n.) Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family.

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

(a.) Consisting chiefly of aloes; of the nature of aloes.

(n.) A medicine containing chiefly aloes.

(adv.) Only; merely; singly.

(a.) Exclusive.

(prep. & adv.) Along.

(a.) Alt. of Arcuated

(n.) Heat.

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

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

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

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

(a.) Sandy; full of sand.

(pl. ) of Areola

(a.) Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolae.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Alter

(n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal.

(n.) A univalve mollusk of the genus Haliotis. The shell is lined with mother-of-pearl, and used for ornamental purposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

(v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

(v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.

(v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.

(v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

(v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.

(n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

(n.) Anything forfeited or confiscated.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abase

(imp. & p. p.) of Abash

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abate

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

(n.) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

(a.) Alt. of Abaxile

(a.) Away from the axis or central line; eccentric.

(n.) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.

(n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abduce

(n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.

(n.) One of the earths, consisting of two parts of aluminium and three of oxygen, Al2O3.

(n.) Alumina.

(a.) Somewhat like alum.

(pl. ) of Alumna

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

(n.) Alum stone.

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

(n.) The hollow of the external ear.

(n.) Same as Alveolus.

(pl. ) of Alveolus

(n.) An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.

(n.) A mixture or compound of different things.

(n.) A native compound of mercury and silver.

(v. t. / i.) To amalgamate.

(n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Argue

(imp. & p. p.) of Amass

(n.) One who amasses.

(n.) A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally.

(a.) Full of love; amatory.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amaze

(a.) Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace.

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

(n.) See Embassy, the usual spelling.

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

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

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

(n.) A canvassing for votes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amble

(a.) Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

(n.) A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

(n.) A fossil resin occurring in large masses in New Zealand.

(pl. ) of Ambry

(n.) An alkaloid, first found in white cinchona bark.

(a.) See Am/bean.

(v. t.) To manage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Amend

(n.) One who amends.

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

(n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.

(n.) Same as Ament.

(v. t.) To lessen.

(imp. & p. p.) of Amerce

(n.) One who amerces.

(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.

(n.) Alt. of Ariette

(n.) A short aria, or air.

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

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arise

(a.) Lovable; lovely; pleasing.

(a.) Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

(a.) Possessing sweetness of disposition; having sweetness of temper, kind-heartedness, etc., which causes one to be liked; as, an amiable woman.

(a.) Done out of love.

(adv.) In an amiable manner.

(n.) See Amianthus.

(pl. ) of Amity

(n.) A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter.

(n.) An obsolete form of admiral.

(n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ammonia.

(n.) Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ.

(a.) Of or pertaining to amnesia.

(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.

(pl. ) of Amoeba

(pl. ) of Amoeba

(prep.) Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.

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

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

(n.) A lover; a gallant.

(n.) A wanton woman; a courtesan.

(n.) A lover; a man enamored.

(adv.) In a soft, tender, amatory style.

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

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

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

(n.) Shapelessness.

(n.) Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire.

(a.) Without any arm or branch.

(a.) Destitute of arms or weapons.

(a.) Clad with armor.

(n.) One who makes or repairs armor or arms.

(n.) Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor.

(n.) One who has the care of arms and armor, cleans or repairs them, etc.

(n.) Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.

(n.) Deprivation of possession.

(n.) A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

(n.) See Annotto.

(n.) Same as Annotto.

(n.) The act of arousing, or the state of being aroused.

(imp. & p. p.) of Arouse

(n.) Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Aspire

(n.) One who aspires.

(adv. & a.) Sprawling.

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

(n.) Alt. of Assegai

(n.) A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

(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.

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

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

(imp. & p. p.) of Avail

(n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

(n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

(n.) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Avenge

(n.) One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.

(n.) One who takes vengeance.

(v. t.) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

(imp. & p. p.) of Aver

(n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

(n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc.

(n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

(n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

(n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.

(n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.

(n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.

(n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.

(a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.

(a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.

(v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.

(v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

(v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.

(v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

(a.) Continuing; lasting.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid.

(n.) Alt. of Abietine

(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.

(v. t.) To take away by judicial decision.

(imp. & p. p.) of Avert

(a.) Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.

(n.) One who, or that which, averts.

(n.) An experimenter in aviation.

(n.) A flying machine.

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

(n.) Vision.

(n.) The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

(a.) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Avoid

(n.) The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.

(n.) One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

(v. i.) To fly away; to escape; to exhale.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avow

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Await

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Awake

(imp. & p. p.) of Award

(n.) One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.

(a.) See Awless.

(a.) Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.

(a.) Expressive of awe or terror.

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

(adv.) Very; excessively.

(a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.

(a.) Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing.

(a.) Perverse; adverse; untoward.

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

(a.) Without awns or beard.

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

(pl. ) of Axilla

(a.) Axillary.

(n.) A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

(n.) An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon.

(n.) A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

(n.) A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

(n.) The Neapolitan medlar (Crataegus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

(n.) The quadrant of an azimuth circle.

(n.) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

(n.) A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite.

(v. t.) To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

(a.) Nitrous; as, azotous acid.

(a.) Azure.

(n.) The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus); -- so called from its color.

(n.) Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

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

(n.) One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Abjure

(n.) One who abjures.

(v. i.) To grow together.

(v. i.) To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.

(v. t.) To make adhere; to add.

(a.) Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

(a.) Grown together.

(n.) Accrument.

(imp. & p. p.) of Accrue

(n.) The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.

(n.) One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356¡ Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of the ancients. The element and its compounds are active poisons. Specific gravity from 5.7 to 5.9. Atomic weight 75. Symbol As.

(n.) Arsenious oxide or arsenious anhydride; -- called also arsenious acid, white arsenic, and ratsbane.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic; -- said of those compounds of arsenic in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, arsenic acid.

(v. t.) To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment.

(v. t.) To free from a penalty; to pardon; to remit (a sin); -- said of the sin or guilt.

(v. t.) To finish; to accomplish.

(v. t.) To resolve or explain.

(a.) Absorbed.

(v. t.) To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

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

(n.) Accusation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Accuse

(a.) Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

(n.) One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.

(n.) One of the Acephala.

(n.) A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.

(a.) Acerose; needle-shaped.

(a.) Sour or severe.

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

(v. t.) To beautify; to dandify.

(imp. & p. p.) of Adopt

(a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

(n.) One who adopts.

(n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.

(imp. & p. p. Adored ) /); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore

(imp. & p. p.) of Adorn

(n.) He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

(v. t.) See Appressed.

(a.) Suprarenal.

(n.) One who adapts.

(n.) A connecting tube; an adopter.

(a.) Addible.

(pl. ) of Addendum

(a.) Capable of being added.

(n.) Abuse.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abuse

(v. t.) Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat.

(a.) Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.

(a.) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.

(a.) Practicing abuse; prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; as, an abusive author; an abusive fellow.

(a.) Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.

(a.) Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abut

(n.) The butting or boundary of land, particularly at the end; a headland.

(n.) One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abye

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.

(pl. ) of Acacia

(n.) Gum arabic.

(n.) An academy.

(n.) Alt. of Acalephan

(n.) A prickle.

(n.) A spine or prickly fin.

(n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

(pl. ) of Acanthus

(a.) Of or caused by acari or mites; as, acarine diseases.

(a.) Shaped like or resembling a mite.

(imp. & p. p.) of Accede

(n.) One who accedes.

(n.) Blindness.

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

(n.) A detergent.

(n.) A foreboding.

(v. t.) To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

(v. t.) To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.

(a.) Brought forth prematurely.

(a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Abrade

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

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

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

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

(adv.) At the same time; simultaneously.

(v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

(v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

(v. t.) To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

(v. t.) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.

(adv.) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.

(adv.) Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir.

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

(v. t.) To cut off.

(n.) See Abscissa.

(v. i.) To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.

(v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.

(v. t.) To hide; to conceal.

(n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.

(n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal.

(n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind.

(n.) Alt. of Absinthe

(n.) The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit.

(n.) A hole for the arm in a garment.

(adv. & a.) Stranded.

(pl. ) of Azalea

(n.) Sloth; torpor.

(v. t.) To applaud.

(v. t.) To declare by acclamations.

(v. t.) To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.

(v. i.) To shout applause.

(n.) Acclamation.

(v. t. & i.) To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Addle

(v.) To aim; to direct.

(v.) To prepare or make ready.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(v. i.) To direct speech.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Adduce

(n.) One who adduces.

(v. t.) To sweeten; to soothe.

(n.) Same as Atheling.

(a.) Alt. of Adenoidal

(v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.

(v. i.) To commit adultery; to pollute.

(v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

(v. t.) To raise; to elevate.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.

(v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.

(v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.

(v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.

(v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

(v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.

(v. t.) To extol; to laud.

(v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.

(v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

(v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.

(v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.

(v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.

(v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

(v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.

(v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.

(a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

(a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

(a.) Opposite.

(a.) In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.

(v. t.) To oppose; to resist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Advise

(n.) One who advises.

(n.) One who has an advowson.

(n.) See Avoyer.

(n.) One who makes an affidavit.

(a.) Without inclination or dipping; -- said the magnetic needle balances itself horizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator.

(a.) Pertaining to acnodes.

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

(n.) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

(n.) One who attends; an assistant.

(n.) Same as Acolyte.

(n.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.

(n.) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.

(n. pl.) Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.

(a.) Furnished or loaded with acorns.

(a.) Fed or filled with acorns.

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

(n.) Acquisition; the thing gained.

(n.) Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.

(v. t.) To quiet.

(v. t.) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

(n.) Acquisition; gain.

(n.) Alt. of Acrasy

(n.) Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.

(adv.) In an acid manner.

(n.) Alt. of Acrisy

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Acrita.

(n.) An individual of the Acrita.

(n.) One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.

(n.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia.

(a.) Alt. of Acronychal

(n.) See Account.

(n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

(n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

(n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

(n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

(n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

(n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

(n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

(v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.

(v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.

(v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

(v. t.) To recount; to relate.

(v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

(v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

(v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

(v. t.) To treat courteously; to court.

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

(v. i.) To turn acid.

(v. i.) To acetify.

(n.) A volatile liquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

(a.) Sour like vinegar; acetous.

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

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

(v. t.) To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.

(v. t.) To obtain, or gain, as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.

(v. t.) To finish; to kill.

(n.) Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.

(n.) Deficiency or want of bile.

(n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

(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.

(a.) Shaped like a needle.

(a.) Alt. of Acinous

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

(n.) Operative surgery.

(a.) Related by marriage; from the same source.

(a.) Joined in affinity or by any tie.

(n.) Same as Acroterium.

(a.) Pertaining to or affecting the surface.

(a.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical of which acrolein is the hydride; as, acrylic acid.

(a.) Capable of being acted.

(a.) Pertaining to the part of a radiate animal which contains the mouth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.

(a.) Without action or spirit.

(n.) A female actor or doer.

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

(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.

(v. t.) To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

(v. t.) To carry out in practice; to perform.

(a.) Put in action; actuated.

(a.) Very active.

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

(n.) A sting.

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

(a.) Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

(a.) Same as Adenose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Adhere

(n.) One who adheres; an adherent.

(v. t.) To admit, as a person or thing; to take in.

(v. t.) To use or apply; to administer.

(v. t.) To attach; to affix.

(a.) Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.

(a.) Fatty; adipose.

(n.) An adjunct; a helper.

(v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.

(v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

(v. t.) To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

(v. t.) To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term.

(v. t.) To sentence; to condemn.

(v. t.) To regard or hold; to judge; to deem.

(a.) Conjoined; attending; consequent.

(n.) Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

(n.) A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.

(n.) A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

(n.) A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

(n.) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

(imp. & p. p.) of Adjure

(n.) One who adjures.

(a.) Alt. of Adactylous

(a.) Pertaining to an adage; proverbial.

(n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

(n.) Lodestone; magnet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Adapt

(adv.) Aloft; on high.

(n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse.

(n.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

(a.) Furnished with alleys; forming an alley.

(n.) Adynamia.

(pl. ) of Aecidium

(a.) Colored like bronze.

(a.) Eternal; everlasting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Aerate

(n.) That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

(n.) See Eaglestone.

(a.) Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.

(a.) Gracious; mild; benign.

(adv.) In an affable manner; courteously.

(n.) A helper or assistant.

(adv.) Dangling.