(adv.) With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.

(adv.) In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently.

(a.) Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.

(a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

(v. i.) To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

(v. t.) To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.

(n.) One who combats.

(imp. & p. p.) of Combine

(a.) United closely; confederated; chemically united.

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

(a.) Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.

(a.) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.

(n.) Alt. of Choliambic

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.

(n.) A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.

() A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

(v. i.) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

(v. i.) To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.

(v. i.) To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.

(n.) Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.

(n.) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

(a.) Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

(n.) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.

(n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

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

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

(n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.

(a.) Stout or plump; large.

(a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

(n.) Act of cutting by strokes.

(n.) An actor or player in comedy.

(n.) A writer of comedy.

(pl. ) of Comedy

(adv.) In a suitable or becoming manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a choragus.

(n.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.

(adv.) In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

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

(n. pl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

(n.) Same as Choriambus.

(a.) Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.

(adv.) In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.

(imp. & p. p.) of Convey

(n.) A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.

(n.) An aromatic umbelliferous plant (Archangelica officinalis or Angelica archangelica) the leaf stalks of which are sometimes candied and used in confectionery, and the roots and seeds as an aromatic tonic.

(n.) The candied leaf stalks of angelica.

(v. t.) To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to Anjou in France.

(n.) A native of Anjou.

(a.) Alt. of Anginose

(a.) Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

(a.) English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, characteristic of, or held by, the high church party of the Church of England.

(n.) A member of the Church of England.

(n.) In a restricted sense, a member of the High Church party, or of the more advanced ritualistic section, in the Church of England.

(n.) One who affirms.

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

(n.) Affixture.

(n.) A breath or blast of wind.

(n.) A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration.

(a.) Alt. of Angulated

(v. t.) To make angular.

(a.) Angulous.

(a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.

(a.) Anhelous; panting.

(a.) Short of breath; panting.

(a.) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

(a.) Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.

(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

(n.) Asphodel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Afford

(v. t.) To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

(p. p.) of Affray

(n.) One engaged in an affray.

(n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale.

(n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements.

(pl. ) of Abacus

(v. t.) To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

(p. a.) Affrighted.

(n.) Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror.

(n.) The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread.

(a.) Face to face, or front to front; facing.

(n.) The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.

(n.) The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease.

(adv. & a.) In a flickering state.

(imp. & p. p.) of Arrange

(n.) One who arranges.

(adv.) Notoriously, in an ill sense; infamously; impudently; shamefully.

(n.) A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

(n.) A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold.

(adv. & a.) In a flutter; agitated.

(v. t.) To look after.

(adv.) Physically.

(imp. & p. p.) of Animate

(a.) Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.

(n.) One who animates.

(n.) One who, or that which, animates; an animater.

(n.) A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds.

(n.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.

(v. t. & i.) Same as Anchylose.

(n.) A writer of annals.

(v. t.) To record in annals.

(imp. & p. p.) of Anneal

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

(n. pl.) A division of the Articulata, having the body formed of numerous rings or annular segments, and without jointed legs. The principal subdivisions are the Chaetopoda, including the Oligochaeta or earthworms and Polychaeta or marine worms; and the Hirudinea or leeches. See Chaetopoda.

(n.) An animal resembling an annelid.

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

(n.) Annexation.

(n.) To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

(v. i.) To make notes or comments; -- with on or upon.

(n.) A bird one year old, or that has once molted.

(v. t.) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

(v. t.) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

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

(a.) Annoying.

(a.) That annoys; molesting; vexatious.

(a.) Troublesome; annoying.

(adv.) Yearly; year by year.

(n.) A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Annul

(a.) Having the form of a ring; annular.

(n. pl.) A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.

(n.) One of the Annulata.

(a.) Alt. of Annulated

(n.) One who annuls.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Annuloida.

(n. pl.) A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoologists it is applied to the former only.

(a.) Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Annulosa.

(imp. & p. p.) of Anoint

(n.) One who anoints.

(a.) Alt. of Anomuran

(a.) Irregular in the character of the tail or abdomen; as, the anomural crustaceans.

(n.) One of the Anomura.

(n.) A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

(n. pl.) A group of insects which includes the lice.

(n.) Alt. of Anorexy

(a.) Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals.

(a.) See Anurous.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a goose, or the skin of a goose.

(a.) Pertaining to the Anseres.

(a.) Resembling a goose; silly; simple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Answer

(n.) One who answers.

(a.) Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

(n.) Contest; opposition; antagonism.

(a.) Alleviating pain.

(n.) A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.

(v. t. & i.) To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass.

(n.) Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.

(n.) Anticipation.

(v. t.) To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.

(v. t.) To precede in time.

(v. t.) To anticipate; to make before the true time.

(n.) Something done before another act.

(pl. ) of Antefix

(n.) One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.

(pl. ) of Antenna

(a.) Belonging to the antennae.

(n.) A foretaste.

(v. t.) To put before; to prefer.

(n.) An outer port, gate, or door.

(a.) Before in time; antecedent.

(a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior.

(v. t.) To prevent.

(v. t.) To displace by anteversion.

(pl. ) of Anthelion

(n.) Same as Antihelix.

(n.) Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

(n.) The period or state of full expansion in a flower.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Arrest

(v.) The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

(n. pl.) The class of the Coelenterata which includes the corals and sea anemones. The three principal groups or orders are Acyonaria, Actinaria, and Madreporaria.

(n.) A poisonous principle obtained from antiar.

(n.) One who arrests.

(n.) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made.

(a.) Alt. of Arrhizous

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

(a.) Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons.

(a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.

(v. t.) To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.

(n.) A gnawing.

(n.) A salt of arsenic acid.

(n.) A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret.

(n.) A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the windpipe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad.

(pl. ) of Artery

(a.) Of or pertaining to Artois (anciently called Artesium), in France.

(adv.) In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.

(imp. & p. p.) of Antic

(imp. & p. p.) of Article

(a.) Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.

(n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.

(n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.

(n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.

(n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

(a.) Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

(n.) A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; -- used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.

(n.) Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.

(v. t.) To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.

(v. t.) To fortify or preserve by an antidote.

(n.) A contradiction between any words or passages in an author.

(n.) A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask.

(n.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

(v. t.) To make resemble.

(a.) Alt. of Artistical

(n.) Works of art collectively.

(n.) Artistic effect or quality.

(n.) Artistic pursuits; artistic ability.

(v. t.) To redeem.

(v. t.) To gainsay.

(n.) Alt. of Agallochum

(n.) An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb.

(n.) Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.

(n.) An opposing law or rule of any kind.

(n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

(n.) A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

(n.) A verse said before and after the psalms.

(n.) One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite.

(n.) The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed.

(n.) One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

(n.) A kind of autotype.

(n.) A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.

(n.) Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

(n.) A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.

(v. t.) To make Aryan (a language, or in language).

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.

(n.) Alt. of Asbestos

(n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ascend

(n.) One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.

(a.) Checking or preventing suppuration.

(n.) An antipyic medicine.

(n. pl.) The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

(n.) An antithetic or contrasted statement.

(n.) That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

(n.) Opposition or resistance of matter to force.

(a.) Furnished with antlers.

(n.) A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

(n.) A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ascribe

(n.) A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

(a.) Forward or upward in direction.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ashantee.

(n.) A stupid fellow.

(a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

(n.) The quality of being aged; oldness.

(pl. ) of Agency

(a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.

(n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.

(n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

(v. t.) To heap up.

(a.) In heaps; full of heaps.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty.

(n.) One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.

(n.) Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything.

(n.) Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like.

(adv.) In any measure; anywise; at all.

(adv.) In any place.

(a.) Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.

(n.) Inflammation of the aorta.

(a.) Alt. of Apagogical

(n.) That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary.

(n.) One who is destitute of feeling.

(pl. ) of Apathy

(a.) Destitute of skin.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

(a.) Gently opening the bowels; laxative.

(n.) An aperient medicine or food.

(n.) The act of opening; an opening; an aperture.

(n.) The act of opening.

(n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.

(n.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

(v. t.) To make rough or uneven.

(n.) The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.

(n.) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

(n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.

(n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.

(n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.

(n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.

(n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.

(a.) Rough; uneven.

(imp. & p. p.) of Asperse

(a.) Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.

(a.) Bespattered; slandered; calumniated.

(n.) One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.

(n.) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.

(n.) Alt. of Asphyxy

(a.) Aspiring.

(n.) One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.

(v. t.) To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

(n.) A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.

(n.) A mark of aspiration (/) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.

(n.) An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Aspirated

(n.) One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

(a.) In the form of pus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purify

(v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved.

(v. i.) To grieve; to lament.

(n.) Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.

(a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.

(imp. & p. p.) of Agitate

(a.) Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes.

(n.) A very compact, dark-colored /ock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.

(n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

(n.) An aphetized form of a word.

(v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae.

(n.) One of the aphides; an aphid.

(a.) Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.

(n.) A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.

(n.) A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

(v. i.) To make aphorisms.

(a.) Of the nature of aphthae; resembling thrush.

(n.) A letter, or a combination of letters, employed in spelling a word, but in the pronunciation having no sound.

(a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthae; characterized by aphtae; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.

(a.) Of or relating to bees.

(n.) One who keeps an apiary.

(a.) Situated at, or near, the apex; apical.

(n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

(n.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators.

(n.) An implement for shaking or mixing.

(adv. & a.) In a glimmering state.

(adv. & a.) Glittering; in a glitter.

(a.) Without tongue; tongueless.

(a.) Alt. of Agminated

(n.) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.

(n.) Acknowledgment.

(a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

(n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Agonize

(a.) Alt. of Puristical

(a.) Not plastic or easily molded.

(n.) Simple incision.

(n.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather.

(n.) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.

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

(a.) Somewhat purple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purpose

(n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

(a.) Characterized by agraphia.

(a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.

(a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.

(n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

(n.) An agrarian law.

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

(a.) Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.

(n.) A genus of plants of the Rose family.

(n.) The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

(n.) The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

(n.) Full demonstration.

(n.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

(a.) Relating to apogamy.

(n.) A copy or transcript.

(n.) One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.

(n.) One who forms a purpose; one who intends.

(n.) A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.

(a.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.

(n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

(n.) The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

(n.) A teller of apologues.

(n.) A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

(n.) All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

(n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.

(a.) Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.

(adv.) Alt. of Pursuantly

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

(n.) The small white European heron. See Egret.

(n.) A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc.

(n.) A tuft like that of the egret.

(n.) A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

(n.) A needle-shaped peak.

(n.) An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.

(n.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape.

(n.) Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

(a.) Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

(n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

(n.) One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.

(n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.

(v. i.) To apostatize.

(a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purvey

(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.

(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.

(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.

(n.) The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Puseyism.

(n.) One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.

(n.) The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

(n.) Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

(adv.) Toward the air; upward.

(n.) Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement.

(a.) Pertaining to akinesia.

(n.) An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.

(a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.

(v. t.) To rouse to action; to inspirit.

(n.) A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.

(n.) Alt. of Alilonghi

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

(a.) Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

(n.) One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms.

(n.) See Aposteme.

(n.) Alt. of Apophthegm

(imp. & p. p.) of Appall

(n.) Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

(a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.

(imp. & p. p.) of Putter

(n.) See Albicore.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey.

(n.) A native of Albania.

(a.) Growing or becoming white.

(n.) A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny.

(n.) A female albino.

(n.) The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

(n.) The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

(n.) A dependency; a dependent territory.

(n.) That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment.

(a.) Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.

(a.) Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.

(a.) Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun.

(n.) An heir apparent.

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

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

(n.) Alt. of Puzzolana

(pl. ) of Pycnidium

(n.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

() A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump.

() The female of the hen harrier.

() The sea eagle.

(n.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.

(n.) a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

(a.) Producing or generating pus.

(n.) A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

(n.) A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Appeal

(n.) One who makes an appeal.

(imp. & p. p.) of Appear

(n.) See Pyramidoid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain.

(n.) The Pyrenees.

(n.) A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain Infusoria.

(a.) Alt. of Pyrexical

(n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned. See Lutidine.

(n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

(n.) Same as Alkahest.

(a.) Alt. of Alchemical

(n.) Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

(n.) One who appears.

(imp. & p. p.) of Appease

(n.) One who appeases; a pacifier.

(a.) Having the form of a pear; pear-shaped.

(v. t.) To convert into pyrites.

(n.) Pyritohedron.

(a.) Pyritic.

(n. pl.) The kingfishers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.

(n.) A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation.

(n.) The defendant in an appeal; -- opposed to appellant.

(n.) The person who is appealed against, or accused of crime; -- opposed to appellor.

(n.) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime.

(n.) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices.

(n.) See Appanage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Append

(n.) Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.

(n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

(n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat.

(pl. ) of Alderman

(n.) A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.

(n.) One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

(n.) One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

(a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.

(n.) A bench in or before an alehouse.

(n.) A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread.

(n.) A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house.

(a.) Desiring; eagerly desirous.

(n.) The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.

(n.) Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.

(n.) Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.

(n.) Tendency; appetency.

(n.) The thing desired.

(v. t.) To make hungry; to whet the appetite of.

(n.) The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by clapping the hands, stamping or tapping with the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.

(n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush."

(n.) An albuminoid substance which occurs in minute grains ("protein granules") in maturing seeds and tubers; -- supposed to be a modification of protoplasm.

(a.) Alt. of Aleutic

(pl. ) of Alewife

(pl. ) of Alewife

(n.) A substance convertible into peptone.

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

(a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever.

(n.) A floor of wood; also, a plank.

(n.) The under side of a cornice; a soffit.

(v. t.) To form of planks.

(n.) A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

(pl. ) of Pantry

(a.) Skilled in all kinds of work.

(n.) A term used to denote all of the elements or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy.

(n.) The upland plover.

(n.) A papist.

(n.) The papacy.

(v. t.) To make papal.

(v. i.) To conform to popery.

(n.) Government by a pope; papal rule.

(n.) A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.

(pl. ) of Penwoman

(n.) A female writer; an authoress.

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

(a.) Vulgar.

(n.) Alt. of Peperino

(n.) A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet.

(n.) One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.

(n.) One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.

(n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

(v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.

(v. t.) To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.

(v. t.) To confute; to prove the fallacy of.

(v. t.) To prove guilty; to convict.

(a.) pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.

(imp. & p. p.) of Convoke

(v. t.) To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.

(imp. & p. p.) of Convoy

(v. t.) To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.

(v. t.) To agitate greatly; to shake violently.

(n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

(n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

(n.) A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

(n.) A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

(n.) A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

(n.) An eating house.

(n.) The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

(n.) Calm impudence; self-possession.

(n.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

(pl. ) of Chorus

(imp. & p. p.) of Chorus

(n.) See Choltry.

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

(a.) Relating to the comitia, or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws.

(pl. ) of Comity

(a.) Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.

(v. i.) To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

(v. i.) To begin to be, or to act as.

(v. i.) To take a degree at a university.

(v. t.) To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.

(a.) Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.

(v. t.) To baptize and give a Christian name to.

(v. t.) To give a name; to denominate.

(v. t.) To Christianize.

(v. t.) To use for the first time.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cooper

(v. t.) To ordain or appoint for some purpose along with another.

(n.) The phalarope; -- so called because its toes are like the coot's.

(a.) Christlike.

(n.) A salt of chromic acid.

(n.) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

(n.) Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

(n.) Sexual intercourse.

(n.) A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

(v. i.) To carry on trade; to traffic.

(v. i.) To hold intercourse; to commune.

(a.) Having a high crown, or a point or peak at top.

(n. pl.) See Larvalla.

(n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca, including many minute Crustacea, both fresh-water and marine.

(n.) Same as Chromatism.

(n.) A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.

(n.) A compound or salt of chromous hydroxide regarded as an acid.

(v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

(n.) A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

(imp. & p. p.) of Copper

(n.) Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

(n.) The red, or corn, poppy.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.

(n.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

(a.) Joined; associated; coupled.

(a.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.

(v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.

(n.) A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court.

(n.) Land held in copyhold.

(n.) One of the higher aromatic hydrocarbons of coal tar, allied to naphthalene and anthracene. It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

(n.) Attempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.

(n.) A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

(n.) A tropical humming bird of the genus Lophornis, with very elegant neck plumes. Several species are known. See Illustration under Spangle, v. t.

(a.) Shaped like a crow's beak.

(a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals.

(n.) The coracoid bone or process.

(n.) A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic.

(n.) A genus of neuropterous insects. See Lacewing.

(a.) Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.

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

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

(n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chuckle

(adv.) Clownishly; surlily.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Church

(n.) One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.

(n.) A member of the House of Commons.

(n.) One who has a joint right in common ground.

(n.) One sharing with another in anything.

(n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner.

(n.) A prostitute.

(adv.) Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.

(adv.) In common; familiarly.

(n.) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right.

(n.) A twisted cord; a tassel.

(n.) A cordwainer.

(n.) Same as Cordwain. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.

(n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

(n.) Trousers or breeches of corduroy.

(v. t.) To form of logs laid side by side.

(n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like.

(a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, the church; ecclesiastical.

(a.) Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly.

(a.) Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.

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

(n.) The act of one who churns.

(n.) The quantity of butter made at one operation.

(n.) Remorse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Commove

(a.) Pertaining to a commune.

(imp. & p. p.) of Commune

(n.) Alt. of Corfute

(n.) See Corrundum.

(n.) A fish; the goldsinny.

(n.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus.

(n.) A crib for storing corn.

(a.) Chylifactive.

(n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance.

(n.) The act of taking food.

(n.) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.

(n.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

(n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corner

(p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles.

(p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.

(n.) The commission or rank of a cornet.

(n.) One who blows a cornet.

(n.) One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates.

(a.) Having a cornice.

(n.) A little horn.

(a.) Producing horns; forming horn.

(imp. & p. p.) of Commute

(n.) One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

(n.) The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.

(pl. ) of Cicerone

(n.) One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

(n.) The chick-pea.

(pl. ) of Cicisbeo

(n.) A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

(n.) A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc.

(v. t.) To tame.

(n.) A maker of cider.

(n.) A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water.

(n.) A loft for corn; a granary.

(n.) A cornemuse.

(a.) Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

(a.) Cuckolded.

(n.) A floret in an aggregate flower.

(v. t.) A system or structure of many parts united.

(imp. & p. p.) of Compare

(n.) One who compares.

(a.) Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Cilicia in Asia Minor.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.

(a.) Alt. of Ciliiform

(n.) A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cimbri.

(n.) One of the Cimbri. See Cimbric.

(n.) A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

(n.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

(n.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

(n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

(n.) That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

(n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

(a.) Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.

(n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

(n.) The clitellus of earthworms.

(n.) The base of the crown of a tooth.

(n.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.

(n.) The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.

(n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

(n.) Cassia.

(n.) The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cipher

(n.) One who ciphers.

(a.) Circinate.

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

(n.) A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.

(a.) In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.

(a.) repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

(a.) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.

(a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.

(a.) Perfect; complete.

(a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

(a.) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.

(n.) A circlet.

(n.) See Coranach.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.

(a.) Resembling, or situated like, a crown or circlet; as, the coronary arteries and veins of the heart.

(n.) A small bone in the foot of a horse.

(n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack.

(a.) Alt. of Coronated

(a.) Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of the jaw, or of the ulna.

(n.) A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus.

(n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.

(a.) Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.

(a.) Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.

(a.) Alt. of Corporale

(n.) The corporal, or communion cloth.

(pl. ) of Circus

(a.) Same as Cirrose.

(a.) See Cirrose.

(n.) One of the Cirripedia.

(n.) The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.

(n.) An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

(n.) The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.

(n.) Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.

(n.) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

(a.) Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.

(n.) The manners of a cit or citizen.

(a.) Aping, or having, the manners of a city.

(n.) The principle of civil government.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.

(v. t.) To compensate.

(v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Compete

(imp. & p. p.) of Compile

(n.) One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

(v. t.) To compress; to shut up.

(v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

(v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.

(v. t.) To lament; to bewail.

(a.) Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

(a.) Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete.

(a.) Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil.

(v. t.) To bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education.

(n.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

(n.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

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

(n.) An accomplice.

(n.) One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper.

(n.) Alt. of Complin

(n.) A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion.

(a.) Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry.

(v. i. & t.) To compete with; to rival.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corrode

(adv.) In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; without danger; safely.

(n.) The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.

(n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.

(n.) Hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness.

(n.) Freedom from risk; safety.

(n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.

(n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.

(n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.

(n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.

(n.) The act of calming, or the state of being calm.

(a.) Tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize

(a.) allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.

(n.) A remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.

(n.) A sitting, as of a court or other body.

(imp. & p. p.) of Comply

(imp. & p. p.) of Compose

(n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

(n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

(n.) The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.

(n.) Dissension; division; schism.

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

(a.) Seductive.

(n.) The quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.

(a.) Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.

(a.) Free from agitation; calm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self-possessed.

(n.) One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.

(n.) One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.

(n.) Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

(n.) The thorax of an insect.

(imp. & p. p.) of Corset

(pl. ) of Cortex

(a.) Belonging to, or consisting of, bark or rind; resembling bark or rind; external; outer; superficial; as, the cortical substance of the kidney.

(n.) A sweet cake or cooky containing aromatic seeds, as caraway.

(n.) A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.

(n.) In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

(v. t.) To form or make by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine.

(v. t.) To put together, as elements, ingredients, or parts, in order to form a whole; to combine, mix, or unite.

(v. t.) To modify or change by combination with some other thing or part; to mingle with something else.

(v. t.) To compose; to constitute.

(v. t.) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt.

(v. i.) To effect a composition; to come to terms of agreement; to agree; to settle by a compromise; -- usually followed by with before the person participating, and for before the thing compounded or the consideration.

(v. t.) Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts; produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or things; composite; as, a compound word.

(n.) That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound word; the result of composition.

(n.) A union of two or more ingredients in definite proportions by weight, so combined as to form a distinct substance; as, water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen.

(n.) The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

(n.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

(n.) A curvet.

(n.) One of the priests of Cybele in Phrygia. The rites of the Corybants were accompanied by wild music, dancing, etc.

(a.) Corymbose.

(n.) A ballet dancer.

(n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

(a.) Without seed or seeds.

(n.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.

(n.) Seedtime.

(pl. ) of Seedsman

(n.) A sower; one who sows or scatters seed.

(n.) A person who deals in seeds.

(v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.

(v. t.) To embrace sexually.

(n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

(n.) One who coshers.

(n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

(n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.

(a.) Alt. of Cosmetical

(n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

(a.) Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

(a.) Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.

(a.) Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.

(a.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.

(a.) Unseemly.

(adv.) In a seemly manner.

(n.) A scombroid food fish of Madeira (Cybium Commersonii).

(n.) A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

(n.) The office or quality of a seer.

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

(v. t. & i.) To print together.

(v. t. & i.) To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another.

(n.) The surreptitious printing of another's copy or book; a work thus printed.

(v. t.) To comprehend; to include.

(n. & v.) See Control.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Seidlitz, a village in Bohemia.

(n.) A lord; the lord of a manor.

(n.) A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English.

(a.) Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken.

(imp. & p. p.) of Compute

(n.) One who computes.

(n.) A fellow rogue.

(a.) Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.

(a.) Costing nothing.

(n.) A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as, platinic chloride (PtCl4).

(n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.

(n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.

(n.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

(n.) One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.

(n.) The state of being best.

(a.) Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay.

(n.) See Elective, n.

(n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.

(a.) Having the quality of a pander.

(n.) A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

(a.) Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.

(n.) One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.

(adv.) With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

(adv.) Without much extent; contractedly.

(adv.) With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.

(adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.

(adv.) Sparingly; parsimoniously.

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

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

(n.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.

(a.) Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.

(v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.

(pl. ) of Sequela

(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.

(n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.

(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.

(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.

(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.

(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.

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

(n.) A soft, effeminate person; a voluptuary.

(n.) The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

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

(n.) The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

(n.) That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.

(n.) The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.

(a.) Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.

(n.) A creatress.

(n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

(n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

(n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

(n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

(a.) Frequent; numerous.

(n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.

(n.) That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.

(n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.

(n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose.

(v. t.) To give credence to; to believe.

(pl. ) of Credendum

(a.) Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy.

(adv.) In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.

(imp. & p. p.) of Credit

(n.) One who credits, believes, or trusts.

(n.) One who gives credit in business matters; hence, one to whom money is due; -- correlative to debtor.

(n.) Government by the nobility.

(n.) Collectively, the nobility.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.

(n.) A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.

(a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

(n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.

(n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it.

(a.) Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

(a.) Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite extreme.

(a.) Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.

(a.) Set over against each other, but separated by the whole diameter of the stem, as two leaves at the same node.

(a.) Placed directly in front of another part or organ, as a stamen which stands before a petal.

(n.) A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.

(n.) Same as Nocturne.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal.

(n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.

(a.) Having the shape of a nose.

(n.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.

(n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

(a.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.

(n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.

(pl. ) of Freedman

(n.) A man who has been a slave, and has been set free.

(n.) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.

(n.) The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Effulge

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

(n.) The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.

(n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively.

(n.) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.

(n.) The liquid escaping or exuded.

(a.) Pouring out; pouring forth freely.

(adv.) Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily.

(n.) Act or process of egesting; a voiding.

(n.) A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.

(n.) Eglantine.

(a.) Alt. of Egoistical

(a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.

(p. p. & a.) Affected with frenzy; frantic; maddened.

(pl. ) of Frenzy

(a.) Tending to excite; exciting.

(n.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

(v. t.) To excite.

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

(a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.

(a.) Serving or tending to excite; excitative.

(n.) That which excites; an excitant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exclude

(n.) The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Egotize

(n.) One who goes out.

() The herb agrimony.

(n.) Sorrow.

(n.) Sickness; ailment; sorrow.

(a.) Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa.

(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Egypt; also, the Egyptian language.

(n.) A gypsy.

(v. t.) To give an Egyptian character or appearance to.

(n.) Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits.

(n.) Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.

(n.) Full; crowded; thronged.

(n.) Often or commonly reported.

(a.) To visit often; to resort to often or habitually.

(a.) To make full; to fill.

(a.) A cool walk; shady place.

(pl. ) of Fresco

(imp. & p. p.) of Fresco

(imp. & p. p.) of Excrete

(a.) Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

(n.) The number greater by a unit than seventeen; eighteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol denoting eighteen units, as 18 or xviii.

(adv.) As the eighth in order.

(pl. ) of Freshman

(n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.

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

(n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

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

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

(n.) The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

(n.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.

(n.) The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.

(n.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.

(v. t.) To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Execute

(n.) One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

(n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.

(n.) The act of breaking up or pulverizing.

(n.) A trifler; a fribble.

(n.) The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge.

(n.) A salt of elaidic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.

(n.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

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

(adv.) With elation.

(n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

(n.) An executioner.

(n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

(pl. ) of Exegesis

(n.) Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

(n.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.

(a.) Alt. of Exegetical

(n.) A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.

(n.) A copy of a book or writing.

(a.) Exemplary.

(n.) A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entree, -- called also fricandel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Friend

(a.) Having friends;

(a.) Inclined to love; well-disposed.

(a.) Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.

(a.) Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.

(a.) Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.

(a.) Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.

(adv.) In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Exempt

(a.) Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.

(pl. ) of Exequy

(a.) Practicing; professional.

(a.) Friesic.

(imp.) of Fright

(v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

(a.) Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.

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

(n.) One who has the power of choosing; an elector.

(n.) See Electuary.

(a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.

(a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

(a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

(a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.

(a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.

(a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

(a.) Those who are elected.

(a.) Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.

(n.) The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.

(n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.

(n.) Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.

(n.) The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.

(n.) That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition.

(n.) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

(v. t.) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.

(v. t.) To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.

(v. t.) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.

(v. t.) To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.

(v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.

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

(n.) The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.

(a.) Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.

(adv.) In a frigid manner; coldly; dully; without affection.

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

(n.) The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendemiaire.

(p. pr. & vb. a.) of Fringe

(a.) Encircling like a fringe; bordering.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.

(a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.

(n.) In an American college, an optional study or course of study.

(a.) Alt. of Electrical

(n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

(a.) Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

(n.) Coast-off clothes.

(n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

(n.) A place where old clothes are sold.

(n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

(a.) Trifling; contemptible.

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

(a.) Brisk; lively; frolicsome.

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

() A prefix or combining form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or employing electricity, etc.; as, electro-negative; electro-dynamic; electro-magnet.

(n.) Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.

(n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain.

(v. t.) To heap up.

(a.) Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

(a.) Full of heaps.

(a.) Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour.

(n.) A substance liable to become sour.

(n.) An acetabulum; or about one eighth of a pint.

(a.) Combined with acetic acid.

(n.) The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient fusion.

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

(n.) A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

(imp. & p. p.) of Frizzle

(n.) One who frizzles.

(n.) Amber.

(n.) An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.

(n.) German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.

(n.) Alt. of Elegancy

(n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.

(n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.

(n.) One who composes elegies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Exhort

(n.) One who exhorts or incites.

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

(n.) Exigency.

(n.) The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.

(a.) That may be exacted; repairable.

(n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

(a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

(a.) Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.

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

(a.) Frolicsome.

(adv.) In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety.

(n.) An example; a model; a pattern.

(n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

(n.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.

(n.) Same as Papoose.

(prep.) Alt. of Fromwards

(a.) Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree.

(n.) Same as Elench.

(a.) Alt. of Elenctical

(v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

(n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

(n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.

(n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.

(n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

(n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.

(n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Thrum

(n.) The song thrush.

(n.) The song thrush.

(imp. & p. p.) of Flower

(n.) A plant which flowers or blossoms.

(n.) A small flower; a floret.

(n.) One who thrusts or stabs.

(n.) The throstle, or song thrust.

(n.) Alt. of Thuggism

(n.) Thuggee.

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

(n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

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

(adv.) In a fluent manner.

(n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

(v. t.) To render fluid.

(n.) A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

(n.) Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

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

(pl. ) of Flunky

(n.) A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C13H10 having a beautiful violet fluorescence; whence its name. It occurs in the higher boiling products of coal tar, and is obtained artificially.

(n.) A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.

(n.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorless gas. Symbol F. Atomic weight 19.

(n.) Calcium fluoride, a mineral of many different colors, white, yellow, purple, green, red, etc., often very beautiful, crystallizing commonly in cubes with perfect octahedral cleavage; also massive. It is used as a flux. Some varieties are used for ornamental vessels. Also called fluor spar, or simply fluor.

(n.) A tetrahexahedron; -- so called because it is a common form of fluorite.

(a.) Agitated; excited.

(pl. ) of Flurry

(imp. & p. p.) of Flurry

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

(n.) A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; -- commonly in the /

(n.) A surface formed of floating threads.

(a.) Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral.

(n. pl.) See Fluxion, 6(b).

(v. i.) To angle, using flies for bait.

(n.) A speck or stain made by the excrement of a fly; hence, any insignificant dot.

(v. t.) To soil with flyspecks.

(a.) Heavy; large.

(a.) Accompanied with thunder; thunderous.

(n.) A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services.

(n.) The post to which a gate or door is hinged.

(n.) The quoin post of a lock gate.

(a.) Produced in hell.

(n.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

(n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.

(n.) A form of dredging machine.

(n.) A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.

(a.) Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.

(n.) See Coltsfoot.

(a.) Having no foam.

(v. t.) To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Fodder

(n.) One who fodders cattle.

(n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday.

(imp. & p. p.) of Thwack

(imp. & p. p.) of Thwart

(n.) A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

(adv.) Transversely; obliquely.

(v. t.) To cut or whittle.

(n.) A small knife; a whittle.

(a.) Without a heel.

(a.) Pertaining to Hegelianism.

(n.) A follower of Hegel.

(n.) Leadership; preponderant influence or authority; -- usually applied to the relation of a government or state to its neighbors or confederates.

(a.) Alt. of Thyrsoidal

(n.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching.

(n.) Pretended sleep.

(n.) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress.

(n.) See Canine tooth, under Canine.

(n.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament.

(n.) A gentle trot, like that of a dog.

(n. pl.) See Doublet, 6 and 7.

(n. pl.) A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

(n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

(interj.) An exclamation of surprise, joy, dejection, uneasiness, weariness, etc.

(v. t.) To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

(v. t.) To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.

(a.) Destitute of an heir.

(n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.

(n.) The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.

(a.) Capable of being foiled.

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

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

(a.) Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.

(n.) Nonsense.

(a.) Having no fold.

(a.) Furnished with foliage; leaved; as, the variously foliaged mulberry.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foliate

(a.) Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.

(a.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.

(a.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.

(a.) Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.

(a.) Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.

(a.) Curled; spiral; helicoid; -- applied esp. to certain arteries of the penis.

(a.) Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.

(a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family.

(n.) A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.

(n.) Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed.

() Alt. of Folk lore

(n.) An assembly of the people

(n.) a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.

(n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

(n.) A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.

(n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.

(n.) A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.

(a.) Full of folly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Follow

(n. pl.) An order of fresh-water rhizopods having a more or less globular form, with slender radiating pseudopodia; the sun animalcule.

(n.) One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer.

(n.) A sweetheart; a beau.

(n.) The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston.

(n.) A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.

(n.) The part of a machine that receives motion from another part. See Driver.

(n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Foment

(n.) One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

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

(n.) The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.

(n.) A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection.

(n.) A fool; a simpleton; a ninny.

(n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.

(n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.

(n.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.

(n.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

(n.) A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.

(a.) Without food; barren.

(n.) The orange filefish. See Filefish.

(n.) The winter flounder. See Flounder.

(a.) Born in or of hell.

(n.) A witch; a hag.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian.

(n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.

(n.) A kite of infernal breed.

(adv.) Toward hell.

(a.) Wearing a helmet; furnished with or having a helmet or helmet-shaped part; galeate.

(a.) Destitute of a helmet.

(a.) Without a helm or rudder.

(pl. ) of Helmsman

(n.) The man at the helm; a steersman.

(n.) The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.

(a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

(a.) Beyond help; irremediable.

(a.) Bringing no help; unaiding.

(a.) Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.

(n.) A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.

(n.) A wife; a helpmate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.

(n.) A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

(n.) A reddish brown or violet crystalline substance, C16H12O6, got from hematoxylin by partial oxidation, and regarded as analogous to the phthaleins.

(n.) An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; -- the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

(a.) Resembling blood.

(n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.

(n.) A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

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

(n.) Alt. of Paraffine

(n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.

(n.) One of the Ophiurioidea.

(n.) Same as Ophiurioid.

(n.) A thing to be noted or observed; a notable fact; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a notary; done or taken by a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.

(pl. ) of Notary

(n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

(n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

(n.) Literal or etymological signification.

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

(n.) The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

(n.) The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.

(n.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

(n.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.

(pl. ) of Napery

(n.) A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.

(adv.) In utter confusion; with confused violence.

(a.) Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.

(n.) The state of being a page.

(a.) Free from pain; without pain.

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

(n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

(a.) Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

(n.) A cataract; a waterfall.

(n.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.

(n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

(n.) Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

(pl. ) of Padrone

(n.) A rich and heavy silk stuff.

(n.) The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish.

(n.) The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

(n.) The state of being a pagan; paganism.

(v. t.) To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.

(v. i.) To behave like pagans.

(n.) Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

(n.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.

(n.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.

(pl. ) of Pailful

(n.) One who overdoes.

(v. t.) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

(n.) Too great a dose; an excessive dose.

(imp.) of Overdraw

(v. t.) To exaggerate; to overdo.

(v. t.) To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pacify

(imp. & p. p.) of Packet

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Ozonize

(n.) An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.

(a. & n.) See Pashalic.

(n.) A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.

(v. t.) To compute or rate too high.

(v. t.) To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

(n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).

(a.) Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scrub

(a.) Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.

(n.) One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.

(n.) A gas washer. See under Gas.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scruple

(n.) One who scruples.

(n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

(n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.

(n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.

(n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.

(v. t.) To scrutinize.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Scuffle

(n.) One who scuffles.

(n.) An agricultural implement resembling a scarifier, but usually lighter.

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

(a.) Composed in a melodious and singing style.

(n.) Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.

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

(n.) Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

(n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.

(n.) A kind of helmet.

(n.) See Burggrave.

(n.) An old province of France (in the eastern central part).

(n.) A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France.

(n.) One who works with the burin.

(n.) A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

(n.) Hence, refuse; filth; offal.

(n.) A scalion.

(n.) A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen.

(n.) One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.

(n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Scumble

(n.) A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.

(n.) A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.

(n.) The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.

(n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.

(n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

(n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.

(v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.

(n.) A capital [Obs.] See Chapital.

(n.) A summary in writing of such matters as are to be inquired of or presented before justices in eyre, or justices of assize, or of the peace, in their sessions; -- also called articles.

(n.) An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

(n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.

(n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

(a.) Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.

(a.) A comic operetta; a music farce.

(a.) Combustible.

(n.) The act of taking off scum.

(n.) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) See 2d Scup.

(n.) One who scurries.

(a.) Such as befits a buffoon or vulgar jester; grossly opprobrious or loudly jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts.

(adv.) In a scurvy manner.

(n.) An impost.

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

(n.) Alt. of Burnous

(imp. & p. p.) of Burrow

(n.) One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

(n.) Inflammation of a bursa.

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

(v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

(a.) Free from bushes; bare.

(n.) A thicket; a cluster of bushes.

(n.) An ambuscade.

(n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

(n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.

(n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

(n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.

(n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.

(n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

(n.) Care; anxiety; diligence.

(a.) Wearing buskins.

(a.) Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scutch

(n.) One who scutches.

(n.) An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.

(n. pl.) See Scutellum.

(n.) See Scutellum, n., 2.

(pl. ) of Scutellum

(v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

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

(n.) of Bustle

(a.) Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd.

(n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

(n.) Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.

(a.) Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Scuttle

(n.) A genus of oceanic nudibranchiate mollusks having the small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.

(n.) The business of a butcher.

(n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.

(n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

(n.) A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe.

(n.) The language of the Scythians.

(n.) A beach lying along the sea.

(n.) A green seaweed (Cladophora rupestris) growing in dense tufts.

(n.) The seashore; seacoast.

(n.) A cruciferous plant (Brassica sinapistrum) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock.

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

(a.) Abounding with charms.

(a.) Pleasing the mind or senses in a high degree; delighting; fascinating; attractive.

(n.) Alt. of Charnico

(imp. & p. p.) of Butter

(n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

(a.) Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.

(adv.) Toward the sea.

(a.) Born of the sea; produced by the sea.

(a.) Born at sea.

(a.) Bounded by the sea.

(n.) One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

(n.) Alt. of Sea-gait

(n.) A long, rolling swell of the sea.

(n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

(n.) A supporter or partisan of chartism.

(a.) Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Button

(n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

(n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.

(n.) The mermaid.

(n.) A sea nymph.

(a.) Without a seam.

(n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.

(n.) A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.

(n.) One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.

(n.) An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.

(adv.) In a chaste manner; with purity.

(v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

(v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Search

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

(pl. ) of Coachman

(n.) A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage.

(n.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin.

(n.) Force; compulsion, either in restraining or impelling.

(a.) Serving to compel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive.

(a.) Acting in concurrence; united in action.

(v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

(n.) Any one of three metameric hydrocarbons, C4H8, of the ethylene series. They are gaseous or easily liquefiable.

(n.) A salt of butyric acid.

(n.) A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.

(a.) Butyraceous.

(n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.

(n.) Moral purity.

(n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.

(n.) Chasteness.

(n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle.

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

(n.) A little castle.

(n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.

(n.) That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.

(n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

(n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

(v. t.) To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.

(v. t.) To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

(n.) Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection.

(n.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

(v. t.) To join together.

(a.) The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.

(n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.

(n.) See Chawdron.

(n.) A table stove or small furnace, usually a cylindrical box of sheet iron, with a grate at the bottom, and an open top.

(n.) A street seller of ballads and other broadsides.

(n.) A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey.

(n.) The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3.

(n. pl.) The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.

(n.) Entrails.

(n.) A conservatory.

(v. t.) To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

(v. t.) To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.

(v. t.) To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

(v. t.) To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.

(v. i.) To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.

(v. i.) To hesitate.

(n.) To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

(n.) To unite in one body or product; to combine into one body or community; as, vapors coalesce.

(n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges.

(adv.) In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.

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

(n.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.

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

(n.) A countersign; a watchword.

(n.) One who is orders to keep within certain limits.

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

(a.) Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.

(n.) A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade.

(n.) Sliding down hill; sliding on a sled upon snow or ice.

(a.) Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.

(imp. & p. p.) of Console

(n.) One who gives consolation.

(n.) A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.

(n.) The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.

(n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.

(v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.

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

(n.) A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey.

(v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

(v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.

(v. t.) To plot; to plan; to combine for.

(v. t.) Firm; solid; fixed; immovable; -- opposed to fluid.

(v. t.) Not liable, or given, to change; permanent; regular; continuous; continually recurring; steadfast; faithful; not fickle.

(v. t.) Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, force, law, etc.

(v. t.) Consistent; logical.

(n.) That which is not subject to change; that which is invariable.

(n.) A quantity that does not change its value; -- used in countradistinction to variable.

(v. t.) To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.

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

(a.) Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

(adv.) In a cheery manner.

(n.) A joint or coadjutant bishop.

(n.) Cobblestone.

(a.) Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

(pl. ) of Coccyx

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

(n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

(n.) See Book scorpion, under Book.

(n. pl.) An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

(a.) Wearing a cockade.

(n.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus.

(v. t.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning.

(a.) Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.

(n.) A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.

(n.) Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.

(n.) The European starling.

(v. t. ) To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover the sense; to explain the construction of; to interpret; to translate.

(v. t. ) To put a construction upon; to explain the sense or intention of; to interpret; to understand.

(n.) A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.

(imp. & p. p.) of Cocker

(n.) A young cock.

(n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.

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

(pl. ) of Cockney

(pl. ) of Cherub

(a.) Alt. of Cherubical

(n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.

(a.) Cherubic; angelic.

(n.) A cherub.

(pl. ) of Chessman

(n.) A piece used in the game of chess.

(n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

(n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

(n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut.

(n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England).

(n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.

(n.) An old joke or story.

(a.) Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.

(n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.

(n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn.

(n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

(n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins.

(n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.

(n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

(n.) Peppergrass.

(n.) The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil.

(n.) Alt. of Cocobolas

(a.) Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Consume

(v. i.) Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility.

(a.) Made of cheveril; pliant.

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

(n.) One who codifies.

(imp. & p. p.) of Codify

(n.) One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.

(n.) An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

(n.) One who uses chicanery.

(n.) See Chicory.

(n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

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

(n.) The act or process of coercing.

(n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.

(a.) Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain.

(n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.

(n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.

(v. t.) To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree.

(n.) One who keeps treasures in a coffer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Coffin

(n.) A tribute by the head; a capitation tax.

(a.) First or foremost; chief; principal.

(pl. ) of Child

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

(n.) The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

(v. i.) Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

(a.) Puerile; trifling; weak.

(n.) pl. of Child.

(n.) The millennium.

(n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.

(n.) One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

(a.) Congenial.

(adv.) In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincingly; conclusively.

(v. i.) To engage in continuous thought; to think.

(v. t.) To think over; to plan.

(v. t.) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.

(v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.

(a.) Withdraw; separate.

(a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

(a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word.

(a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name.

(n.) A person connected through cognation.

(n.) One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.

(n.) One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant.

(n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.

(n.) A surname.

(n.) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just.

(n.) The act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.

(n.) The state of being despised; disgrace; shame.

(n.) An act or expression denoting contempt.

(n.) Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

(pl. ) of Content

(n. pl.) See Content, n.

(n.) A joint herald.

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

(a.) Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid.

(a.) Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

(a.) Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker.

(a.) Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.

(n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.

(n.) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.

(n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas.

(a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.

(a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.

(v. t.) To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.

(a.) Abstracted; absent in mind.

(a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away.

(a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects.

(a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute.

(a.) To epitomize; to abridge.

(a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.

(a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

(v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction.

(a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief.

(a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things.

(a.) An abstract term.

(a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.

(n.) A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

(n.) To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.

(n.) To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.

(n.) To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.

(n.) An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.

(n.) A mean, paltry fellow; a coward.

(n.) The cocoanut.

(n.) Cuckold.

(n.) A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perforated metal, or the like.

(n.) The act or process of straining or filtering.

(n.) The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer.

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

(n.) The common rape or cole.

(n.) A variety of cabbage in which the leaves never form a compact head.

(n.) Any white cabbage before the head has become firm.

(n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.

(n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

(v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.

(v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.

(n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.

(n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.

(n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.

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

(a.) Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.

(n.) A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.

(n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

() A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.

(imp. & p. p.) of Collar

(n. pl.) Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.

(a.) Wearing a collar.

(a.) Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.

(a.) Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.

(imp. & p. p.) of Collate

(pl. ) of Chimera

(a.) Chimerical.

(pl. ) of Chinaman

(n.) A native of China; a Chinese.

(n.) One who collates manuscripts, books, etc.

(n.) One who collates to a benefice.

(n.) One who confers any benefit.

(v. i.) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

(v. i.) To be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.

(v. i.) To be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.

(v. t.) To unite; to connect.

(v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

(v. t.) To carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.

(v. t.) To retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.

(n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass.

() See Cinchona.

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

(n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

(n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

(n.) To betroth; to affiance.

(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

(v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

(a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.

(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.

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

(pl. ) of Chintz

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

(n.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.

(n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

(n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

(n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.

(n.) Gout in the hand.

(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

(a.) Agglutinant.

(n.) An agglutinant.

(n.) The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

(n.) The coal trade.

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

(a.) Cheering; enlivening.

(a.) Cheerful; joyous; chatty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Chisel

(v. i.) To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.

(a.) Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.

(n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.

(n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.

(n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.

(n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

(n.) Exploit.

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

(n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.

(a.) Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.

(a.) Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.

(a.) Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.

(a.) Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.

(n.) A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.

(n.) An opponent; an enemy.

(n.) the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.

(n.) See Contraries.

(v. i.) To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.

(v. t.) To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.

(v. t.) To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.

(n.) The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.

(n.) Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.

(n.) The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.

(a.) Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.

(n.) Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.

(n.) In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.

(imp. & p. p.) of Collude

(n.) One who conspires in a fraud.

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

(pl. ) of Collyrium

(n.) A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot.

(n.) See Calumbin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

(n.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.

(n.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).

() of Panel

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

(n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.

(n.) The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.

(n.) Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.

(v. t.) To make sad.

(a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.

(a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

(n.) A contrite person.

(v.) In a contrite manner.

(n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.

(n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

(n.) Similitude; comparison.

(n.) A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

(a.) Same as Jessant.

(a.) Destitute of a nose.

(n.) A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

(n.) That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.

(n.) Same as Nostalgia.

(pl. ) of Nostrum

(n.) The typical genus of ophidioid fishes. [Written also Ophidium.] See Illust. under Ophidioid.

(a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidae.

(a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Myxine.

(n.) A hagfish.

(pl. ) of Myxoma

(n. pl.) The Marsipobranchiata.

(imp. & p. p.) of Oxidize

(n.) An agent employed in oxidation, or which facilitates or brings about combination with oxygen; as, nitric acid, chlorine, bromine, etc., are strong oxidizers.

(n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga; the beefeater.

(n.) A Mixture of water and vinegar.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.

(a.) Alt. of Oxygonial

(n.) A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

(n.) Acuteness or shrillness of voice.

(a.) Promoting uterine contractions, or parturition.

(n.) An oxytocic medicine or agent.

(a.) Affording pabulum, or food; alimental.

(n.) The act of pacifying; a peacemaking.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline; -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.

(imp. & p. p.) of Overawe

(v. t.) To bear down or carry down, as by excess of weight, power, force, etc.; to overcome; to suppress.

(v. t.) To domineer over; to overcome by insolence.

(v. i.) To bear fruit or offspring to excess; to be too prolific.

(v. t.) To bend to excess.

(v. i.) To bend over.

(v. t.) To outlive.

(v. i.) To blow over, or be subdued.

(v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.

(v. t.) To blow away; to dissipate by wind, or as by wind.

(v. i.) To boil over or unduly.

(a.) Excessively or presumptuously bold; impudent.

(v. i.) To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow.

(v. t.) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.

(v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.

(v. t. & i.) To burn too much; to be overzealous.

(n.) Excessive care.

(v. t.) To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.

(a.) Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains.

(n.) The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.

(a.) Relating to or comprising an oath; as, juratory caution.

(n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

(n.) A child's game; bopeep.

(n.) One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

(a.) Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food.

(n.) Inflammation of the ovaries.

(v. t. & i.) To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.

(a.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.

(adv.) From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward.

(adv.) See Outward, adv.

(v. t.) To exceed in watching.

(v. t.) To weary out.

(v. t.) To exceed in weight or value.

(pl. ) of Owlery

(a.) Having eyes like an owl's.

(n.) A pedicel.

(pl. ) of Pediculus

(a.) Shaped like a foot.

(n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

(n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

(n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.

(n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.

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

(n.) A lyric composition.

(a.) Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

(a.) Having no mate.

(n.) A dish of food composed of many kinds of fish.

(a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

(a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.

(a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.

(a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.

(n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.

(v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.

(n.) That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

(n.) The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

(n.) Learning; especially, mathematics.

(n.) See Trinitarian.

(pl. ) of Matrix

(a.) Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

(a.) Advanced in years; elderly.

(a.) Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.

(n.) A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.

(n.) A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews.

(v. t.) To congratulate.

(n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

(n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.

(n.) A sort of droll or fool.

(n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

(n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.

(n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

(n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni.

(imp. & p. p.) of Matter

(n.) A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite.

(pl. ) of Miasma

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

(pl. ) of Micella

(n.) Alt. of Maccoboy

(n.) A kind of snuff.

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

(n.) The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines.

(a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

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

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

(n. pl.) An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

(n.) A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

(n.) A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

(a.) Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable.

(n.) A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird's tail spread), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one.

(v. t.) To cut to a dovetail.

(v. t.) To join by means of dovetails.

(v. t.) To fit in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly.

(n.) A sharp, quick noise; a smack.

(a.) Making a sharp, brisk sound; hence, brisk; as, a smacking breeze.

(n.) A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

(a.) Somewhat small.

(n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.

(n.) Alt. of Smaltite

(n.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.

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

(n.) See Diarchy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dinner.

(n.) A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.

(n.) Alt. of Dinosaurian

(a.) Like a dowdy.

() of Dowel

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

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

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.

(n.) A bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of New York.

(n.) The clergy or the people of a diocese.

(pl. ) of Diocese

(a.) Alt. of Dioecious

(n.) The condition of being dioecious.

(n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.

(a.) See Dioecious.

(n.) A genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. See Albatross.

(n.) A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

(v. t.) To bear down; to depress.

(a.) Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.

(n.) Downcast or melancholy look.

(n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

(n.) Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow.

(n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.

(n.) A sudden fall; a body of things falling.

(n.) A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.

(n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul.

(adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

(a.) Declivous; descending; sloping.

(n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

(n.) A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

(n.) A hydrous silicate of alumina, of a greenish color, which, in certain states of humidity, appears transparent and almost gelatinous.

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

(n.) The act of one who smells.

(n.) The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell.

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

(n.) A house or place for smelting.

() a. & n. from Smelt.

(a.) Alt. of Downtrodden

(adv.) Alt. of Downwards

(a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.

(a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.

(a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.

(n.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.

(n.) In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.

(n.) A dioptre. See Dioptre.

(a.) Alt. of Dioptrical

(a.) Pertaining to a diorama.

(a.) Containing diorite.

(n.) See Parrilin.

(n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.

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

(n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

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

(a.) Somewhat drab in color.

(a.) Having the character of a drab or low wench.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drabble

(n.) A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

(pl. ) of Drachma

(pl. ) of Drachma

(a.) Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.

(n.) See Dabchick.

(n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

(a.) Of or pertaining to two planes.

(n.) A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.

(a.) Worthless; draffy.

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

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

(n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Draggle

(n.) An interpreter; -- so called in the Levant and other parts of the East.

(n.) A little dragon.

(n.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.

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

(n.) A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain.

(n.) The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers.

(n.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works.

(n.) Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc.

(n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc.

(v. t.) The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land.

(a.) Alt. of Dramatical

(n.) The practice of drinking drams.

(n.) A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

(n.) The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

(n.) Work done by a smith; smithing.

(n.) The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape.

(a.) Capable of being smoked; suitable or ready to be smoked; as, smokable tobacco.

(a.) Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

(a.) Capable of being drawn.

(n.) A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

(n.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.

(n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.

(n.) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.

(v. t.) To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.

(v. t.) To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

(n.) A single cut with a knife.

(n.) Alt. of Diplomate

(n.) Alt. of Diplopy

(n.) One of the Diplopoda.

(pl. ) of Dipody

(v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.

(v. i.) To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud.

(v. t.) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

(n.) Smoke; smother.

(n.) A harness for draught horses.

(n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.

(n.) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.

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

(n.) The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.

(n.) Same as Drawbar (b).

(n.) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.

(n.) A species of damask made on the drawloom.

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

(n.) One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.

(a.) Tending to produce thirst.

(n.) Excessive thirst produced by disease.

(a.) Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.

(a.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.

(n.) An insect of the order Diptera.

(imp. & p. p.) of Smooth

(v. t.) To make smooth.

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

(adv.) In a smooth manner.

(a.) Tending to smother; stifling.

(v. i.) See Smolder.

(a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful.

(a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.

(a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

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

(a.) Full of dreams.

(adv.) As if in a dream; softly; slowly; languidly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Direct

(n.) One who directs; a director.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Smuggle

(n.) One who smuggles.

(n.) A vessel employed in smuggling.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Smutch

(n.) Snuff.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Smyrna.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Smyrna.

(adv.) Gloomily; dismally.

(n.) Sorrow.

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

(a.) Foul with lees; feculent.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drench

(n.) One who, or that which, west or steeps.

(n.) One who administers a drench.

(n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.

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

(adv.) In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.

(adv.) In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.

(adv.) Without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.

(adv.) Exactly; just.

(adv.) Straightforwardly; honestly.

(adv.) Manifestly; openly.

(adv.) Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.

(adv.) Immediately after; as soon as.

(n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

(n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.

(n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.

(n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

(n.) Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.

(n.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.

(n.) Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

(n.) A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.

(n.) The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

(n.) Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

(n.) An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

(n.) Castigation; scolding; -- often with down.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Snaffle

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

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

(n.) A hemispherical or rounded head to a rivet or bolt; also, a swaging tool with a cavity in its face for forming such a rounded head.

() a. & n. from Snap, v.

(a.) Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.

(a.) Sharp in reply; apt to speak angrily or testily; easily provoked; tart; peevish.

(n.) A knapsack.

(n.) See Impatiens.

(p. pr. & vvb. n.) of Snarl

() a. & n. from Snarl, v.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snatch

(n.) One who snatches, or takes abruptly.

(n.) A chip; a alice.

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

(a.) Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching.

(n.) A paltry fellow; a sneak.

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

(a.) Given to sneering.

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

(n.) The act of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.

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

(n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

(a.) Funereal; moaning.

(a.) Directing.

(n.) The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.

(a.) Absolute.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Dribble

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

(n.) One who dribbles.

(n.) Alt. of Driblet

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

(n.) A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.

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

() a. & n. from Snift.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sniggle

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

(a.) Ridiculously small; petty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Snivel

(imp. & p. p.) of Disable

(v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

(n.) A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

(v. t.) To deprive of ornaments.

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

(n.) Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.

(n.) Anything that drifts.

(n.) A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.

(n.) A common way, road, or path, for driving cattle.

(n.) Same as Drift, 11.

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

(n.) One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.

(n.) The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.

(n.) Snobbery.

(n.) A little snob.

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

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

(v. i.) To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

(v. i.) To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel.

(v. i.) To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste.

(v. t.) To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

(v. t.) To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of.

(v. t.) To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

(n.) The act of piercing with a drill.

(n.) A training by repeated exercises.

(n.) The act of using a drill in sowing seeds.

(n.) A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton.

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

(n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

(n.) Filth; abomination.

(n.) A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.

(n.) The Guelder-rose.

(n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.

(n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

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

(n.) A falling in drops, or the sound so made.

(n.) That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drivel

(n.) A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool.

(n.) A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

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

(a.) Deprived of arms.

(a.) Deprived of claws, and teeth or beaks.

(n.) One who disarms.

(v. t.) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.

(v. t.) To take off the dress of; to unrobe.

(n.) Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

(n.) Confused attire; undress.

(n.) An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

(n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap.

(v. t.) To blast by the influence of a baleful star.

(v. t.) To bring harm upon; to injure.

(v. t.) To drive from a bench or seat.

(v. t.) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

(v. t.) To clear from blame.

(v. t.) To disembowel.

(v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.

(imp. & p. p.) of Drizzle

(n.) See Dragoman.

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

(n.) The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners.

(n.) Something which serves to raise mirth

(n.) A puppet show; also, a puppet.

(n.) A lively or comic picture.

(a.) Somewhat droll.

(n.) A droll.

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

(n.) The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.

(n.) Dung of cattle or horses, mixed with straw.

(n.) Stabling.

(n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.

(pl. ) of Stallman

(n.) One who keeps a stall for the sale of merchandise, especially books.

(a.) Alt. of Stalworth

(v. i.) To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.

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

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

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

(a.) Destitute of soil or mold.

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

(n.) See Sallenders.

(n.) A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.

(a.) Resembling a potato; -- said of a kind of cancer.

(n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

(n.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.

(v. t.) To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

(v. i.) To become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera.

(n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.

(n.) A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

(imp. & p. p.) of Solder

(n.) One who solders.

(n.) A body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.

(n.) Military service.

(n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.

(n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.

(n.) One who commits a solecism.

(v. i.) To commit a solecism.

(adv.) In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.

(n.) The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.

(n.) An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.

(a.) Furnished with stamens.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.

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

(v. t.) A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.

(v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.

(v. t.) To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.

() a. & n. from Stamp, v.

(imp. & p. p.) of Stanch

(n.) A stanchion.

(n.) One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.

(adv.) In a stanch manner.

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

(n.) A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.

(n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.

(n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.

(n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.

(n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.

(n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.

(n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

(n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

(n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.

(n.) The sheth of a plow.

(n.) A large drinking cup.

(a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.

(a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.

(a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.

(a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.

(n.) One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something upon which one relies for constant use or in an emergency.

(a.) Remaining erect; not cut down; as, standing corn.

(a.) Not flowing; stagnant; as, standing water.

(a.) Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.

(a.) Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees.

(a.) Not movable; fixed; as, a standing bed (distinguished from a trundle-bed).

(n.) The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand.

(n.) Maintenance of position; duration; duration or existence in the same place or condition; continuance; as, a custom of long standing; an officer of long standing.

(n.) Place to stand in; station; stand.

(n.) Condition in society; relative position; reputation; rank; as, a man of good standing, or of high standing.

(n.) A stand, or case, for pen and ink.

(n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works.

(n.) A tin mine; tin works.

(n.) A salt of stannic acid.

(n.) A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Sol-fa

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

(n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion.

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

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Starch

(a.) Stiffened with starch.

(a.) Stiff; precise; formal.

(n.) One who starches.

(adv.) In a starched or starch manner.

(n.) A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden-rod.

(n.) A small piece of money.

(a.) Having community of interests and responsibilities.

(v. t.) To make solid or firm.

(v. t.) To make solid or compact.

(v. i.) To become solid; to harden.

(n.) The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.

(n.) An advocate of, or believer in, solidism.

(n.) The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.

(n.) Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.

(n.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.

(a.) Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun.

(a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.

(a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.

(a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

(a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.

(a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.

(a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.

(n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

(a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

(a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.

(a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.

(n.) A flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Solifugae.

(n.) One of the Solifugae.

(v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.

(v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.

(v. i.) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

(n.) The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.

(n.) The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.

(n.) The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.

(n.) release; deliverance; discharge.

(n.) The termination of a disease; resolution.

(n.) A crisis.

(n.) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.

(a.) Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.

(a.) Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.

(a.) Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations.

(a.) Able to pay one's debts; solvent.

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

(n.) The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.

(n.) One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist.

(n.) See Somite.

(adv.) Alt. of Sombrely

(adv.) In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.

(n.) A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America.

(a.) Gloomy; somber.

(n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

(n.) A person of consideration or importance.

(adv.) In some degree; somewhat.

(n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.

(n.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.

(a.) Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.

(n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.

(n.) A California fish; the rock trout.

(n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.

(n.) A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk; -- called also star-nosed mole.

(n.) A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life.

(adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

(adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

(adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime.

(a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

(n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.

(n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.

(adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.

(adv.) At some indefinite time.

(a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.

(a.) Ungirded; loosely dressed.

(n.) One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.

(v. t.) To teach; to train.

(v. t.) To punish; to discipline.

(v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

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

(a.) Apt to start; skittish.

() a. & n. from Start, v.

(a.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.

(imp. & p. p.) of Startle

(n.) A summoner.

(n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.

(n.) A short and simple sonata.

(a.) Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.

(n.) One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.

(n.) A singing bird.

(v. t.) To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

(v. t.) To deny, as a claim; to refuse.

(v. t.) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

(v. t.) To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

(v. t.) To take off a cloak from; to uncloak.

(v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

(v. t.) To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.

(v. t.) To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.

(v. t.) To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.

(n.) Disclosure.

(v. t.) To clear from clouds.

(v. t.) To divest of a clout.

(v. i.) To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated.

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

(n.) Any plant of the genus Aster. See Aster.

(n.) A small plant of the genus Stellaria, having star-shaped flowers; star flower; chickweed.

(n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics.

(a.) That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question at issue is statable.

(adv.) At stated times; regularly.

(a.) Full of state; stately.

(n.) The quality or state of being sonorous; sonorousness.

(a.) Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

(a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.

(a.) Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.

(a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.

(a.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.

(n.) Same as Souchong.

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

(v. t.) To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.

(v. t.) To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.

(a.) Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.

(a.) Pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.

() a. & n. from Soothe, v.

(v. i.) To foretell; to predict.

(n.) A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy.

(n.) Omen; portent. Having

(a.) Teaching wisdom.

(v. t.) To discount. See Discount.

(n.) One who practices the art of making statues.

(n.) The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.

(n.) A collection of statues; statues, collectively.

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

(n.) The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep.

(v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.

(a.) Alt. of Soporous

(a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.

(pl. ) of Soprano

(n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.

(n.) The char.

(n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.

(a.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.

(a.) Inclining to redness; ruddy; red.

(n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.

(n.) A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.

(a.) Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics.

(n.) A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.

(n.) A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.

(imp. & p. p.) of Resent

(n.) One who resents.

(v. t.) To unlock; to open.

(imp. & p. p.) of Reserve

(a.) Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.

(a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.

(n.) One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.

(n.) One who reserves.

(imp. & p. p.) of Redden

(imp. & p. p.) of Redeem

(n.) One who redeems.

(n.) Specifically, the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.

(a.) Without rede or counsel.

(v. t.) To demand back; to demand again.

(n.) A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.

(v. t.) To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.

(n.) The transfer of an estate back to the person who demised it; reconveyance; as, the demise and redemise of an estate. See under Demise.

(n.) The European linnet.

(a. / adv.) Alt. of Red-handed

(v. t.) To digest, or reduce to form, a second time.

(a.) Applied to the examination of a witness, by the party calling him, after the cross-examination.

(n.) Act of returning; return.

(v. t.) To divide anew.

(n.) Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Haemulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.

(a.) Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.

(v. t.) To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.

(v. i.) To become greatly or repeatedly increased; to be multiplied; to be greatly augmented; as, the noise redoubles.

(n.) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India.

(n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.

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

(a.) Tending to reduce.

(n.) A reducent agent.

() a & n. from Reduce.

(pl. ) of Ampulla

(a.) Alt. of Ampullary

(n.) A salt of racemic acid.

(a.) Resembling a raceme; growing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme.

(a.) See Racemose.

(n.) A little raceme.

(n.) Same as Rhachilla.

(pl. ) of Rachis

(pl. ) of Rachis

(a.) Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.

(n.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.

(n.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds.

(n.) The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assail

(n.) One who assails.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.

(n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Assam.

(n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.

(v. t.) To assassinate.

(v. t.) To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

(v. t.) To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)

(a.) Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.

(a.) Full off dregs; foul.

(a.) Capable of being amused.

(n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.

(a.) Wanting the spinal cord.

(n.) A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis."

(n.) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

(a.) Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever.

(a.) Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.

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

(n.) The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.

(v. t.) To make sure or safe; to assure.

(v. t.) To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

(v. i.) To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate.

(v. i.) To liken; to compare.

(n.) A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

(imp. & p. p.) of Racket

(n.) One who makes, or engages in, a racket.

(n.) Any mechanism having a rack, as a rack and pinion.

(n.) One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.

(pl. ) of Radiale

(adv.) In a radial manner.

(n.) Alt. of Radiancy

(n.) The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.

(imp. & p. p.) of Radiate

(a.) Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines; as, radiated heat.

(a.) Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis; as, a radiated structure; a radiated group of crystals.

(a.) Belonging to the Radiata.

(n.) That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a steam radiator.

(n.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

(n.) A collection of inanimate objects.

(n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assent

(n.) One who assents.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assert

(n.) One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

(n.) One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assess

(n.) One who is assessed.

(a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy.

(a.) Radicated.

(v. i.) To take root; to become rooted.

(v. t.) To cause to take root; to plant deeply and firmly; to root.

(n.) A radicle.

(n.) Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

(a.) Alt. of Anagogical

(v.) One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.

(v.) One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.

(v.) One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.

(n.) One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

(a.) Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

(n.) A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

(pl. ) of Radius

(imp. & p. p.) of Assign

(n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

(v.) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor.

(v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.

(n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.

(n.) An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.

(n.) See Asinego.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assist

(n.) An assistant; a helper.

(n.) A assister.

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

(pl. ) of Raftsman

(n.) A man engaged in rafting.

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

(a.) Having a resemblance of sounds.

(a.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

(v. i.) To correspond in sound.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assort

(a.) Selected; culled.

(imp. & p. p.) of Assuage

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

(n.) Alt. of Ragabrash

(n.) An inventory; a record.

(n.) A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.

(n.) Analcime.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Analecta

(n. pl.) A collection of literary fragments.

(n.) An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.

(n.) An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.

(n.) A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

() Recovery of strength after sickness.

() A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

(a.) Analogous.

(a.) Of or belonging to analogy.

(n.) Analogue.

(n.) That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.

(n.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

(n.) An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

(n.) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

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

(n.) A patch; an addition; a piece put on.

(a.) Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous.

(n.) A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera.

(n.) Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc.

(pl. ) of Analysis

(n.) A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

(n.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

(n.) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

(n.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

(n.) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

(n.) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

(n.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.

(a.) Alt. of Analytical

(imp. & p. p.) of Analyze

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

(n.) The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

() Alt. of Anapaestic

(n.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

(a.) Relating to respiration.

(a.) Lawless; anarchical.

(a.) Alt. of Anarchical

(n.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

(n.) One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate.

(n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.

(n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

(n.) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.

(pl. ) of Anatifa

(n.) Same as Anatifa.

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

(a.) That assures; tending to assure; giving confidence.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.

(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

(n.) A genus of echinoderms.

(n.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

(n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.

(n.) A banterer; a jester; a mocker.

(n.) Alt. of Railway

(a.) Alt. of Anatomical

(n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

(n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.

(n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

(n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.

(n.) A constellation.

(n.) A small cluster of stars.

(n.) An asterisk, or mark of reference.

(n.) Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.

(n.) An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.

(a.) Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

(n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

(n.) Alt. of Astheny

(a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

(a.) Not possessing a mouth.

(p. p.) Stunned; astonished. See Astony.

(n.) A drop of rain.

(n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.

(a.) Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.

(a.) Capable of being raised.

(imp. & p. p.) of Anchor

(a.) Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue.

(a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross.

(n.) Alt. of Anchorite

(v. t.) To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.

(v. t.) To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Astony

(a.) Pertaining to the genus Astraea or the family Astraeidae.

(n.) A coral of the family Astraeidae; a star coral.

(n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

(n.) A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth.

(n.) A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

(n.) Age; antiquity.

(n.) Seniority.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.

(n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

(a.) Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonne. See under Catalogue.

(v. t.) To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.

(v. t.) To bind by moral or legal obligation.

(n.) Alt. of Astrofell

(n.) A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone.

(a.) Elbowlike; anconal.

(n.) A kind of triclinic feldspar found in the Andes.

(n.) An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.

(n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

(a.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets.

(a.) Bijugate.

(n.) Unpublished narratives.

(n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

(n.) An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

(n.) A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.

(n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.

(n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.

(a.) Receivable at a bank.

(n.) A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

(n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.

(n.) A person who, in accordance with the terms of a law relating to bankruptcy, has been judicially declared to be unable to meet his liabilities.

(a.) Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

(a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury.

(a.) Relating to bankrupts and bankruptcy.

(a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess).

(v. t.) To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

(n.) The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.

(n.) Craftiness; astuteness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain.

(n.) A native of Asturias.

(n.) A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level.

(adv.) In a swoon.

(n.) A woman's ornament; habiliment.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates.

(n.) The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

(a.) Furnished with, or bearing, banners.

(n.) Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.

(n.) A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.

(n.) A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

(n.) A small banner.

(n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

(imp. & p. p.) of Banter

(n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

(n.) Alt. of Ataraxy

(a.) Without technical or artistic knowledge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Billet

(n.) A name applied to several distinct fishes

(n.) The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.

(n.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).

(n.) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.

(n.) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).

(n.) A printed form, used by merchants in making out bills or rendering accounts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

(n.) One who banters or rallies.

(n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]

(n.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

(n.) An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

(imp. & p. p.) of Baptize

(n.) One who baptizes.

(n. pl.) A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

(n.) An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family.

(pl. ) of Athenaeum

(n.) Alt. of Athenaeum

(a.) Of or pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of Greece.

(n.) A native or citizen of Athens.

(n.) A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

(n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.

(n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

(a.) Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.

(imp. & p. p.) of Billow

(n.) A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel.

(a.) Divided into two lobes or segments.

(a.) Having two hands; two-handed.

(a.) Applied to a line which is the sum of two lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).

(a.) See Bimonthly, a.

(n.) See Barbican.

(n.) Alt. of Barbadoes

(a.) Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts.

(adv.) On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.

(a.) Relating to the atlas.

(a.) Anterior; cephalic.

(n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.

(a.) Descended from Atlas.

(n.) That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

(a.) Having barbed points.

(n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

(n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

(n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

(v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.

(v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.

(imp. & p. p.) of Barber

(n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.

(n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

(n.) Alt. of Barbacan

(n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.

(n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

(n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

(n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

(v. t.) To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.

(a.) Of or pertaining to atoms.

(a.) Extremely minute; tiny.

(n.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.

(n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.

(n.) An expression consisting of two terms connected by the sign plus (+) or minus (-); as, a + b, or 7 - 3.

(a.) Consisting of two terms; pertaining to binomials; as, a binomial root.

(a.) Having two names; -- used of the system by which every animal and plant receives two names, the one indicating the genus, the other the species, to which it belongs.

(n.) Same as Dioxide.

(n.) Same as Bioplast.

(n.) An inferior bard.

(n.) The state of being a bard.

(adv.) On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

(n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

(a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

(n.) One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

(a.) Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

(a.) Alt. of Biological

(n.) The destruction of life.

(a.) Relating to the destruction of life.

(n.) Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.

(n.) A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

(n.) A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

(a.) Bringing forth two at a birth.

(a. & adv.) Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.

(n.) The state of being bare.

(n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

(n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

(n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

(n.) Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

(n.) An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

(a.) Relating to atrophy.

(n.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

(n.) A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

(a.) Not inverted; orthotropous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attach

(imp. & p. p.) of Attack

(n.) One who attacks.

(n.) See Yataghan.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attain

(a.) Having, or consisting of, two branches.

(a. & n.) See Barytone.

(a.) Destitute of bark.

(v. t.) To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.

(v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency.

(v. t.) To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.

(v. t.) To accommodate; to make suitable; to adapt.

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

(n.) A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.

(n.) An instrument of any kind, as a whistle, used in making the sound of a birdcall.

(n.) A young bird.

(a.) Resembling a bird.

(n.) A little bird; a nestling.

(n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

(n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.

(n.) A bernicle goose.

(n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

(sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.

(n.) A yard belonging to a barn.

(n.) The science of weight or gravity.

(n.) The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

(n.) The whole body of barons or peers.

(n.) The dignity or rank of a baron.

(n.) The land which gives title to a baron.

(n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attend

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

(n.) An attempt; an assault.

(n.) A proceeding in a court of judicature, after an inhibition is decreed.

(n.) Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

(n.) The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.

(n.) The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.

(n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.

(n.) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Biscay.

(n.) A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

(a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony.

(pl. ) of Barony

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

(n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

(n.) A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.

(v. i.) One guilty of barratry.

(n.) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.

(n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.

(n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.

(adv.) Attentively.

(n.) A spider.

(n.) A peevish, ill-natured person.

(imp. & p. p.) of Attest

(n.) Alt. of Attestor

(n.) One who attests.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bisect

(n.) One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.

(a.) Alt. of Biseriate

(a.) Alt. of Bisetous

(a.) Having two bristles.

(a.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Bishop

(imp. & p. p.) of Bishop

(imp. & p. p.) of Barrel

(a.) Alt. of Barrelled

(adv.) Unfruitfully; unproductively.

(n.) A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.

(n.) The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

(v. t.) To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica.

(v. i.) To side with the Athenians.

(v. i.) To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.

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

(n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

(n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

(n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.

(n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent.

(n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.

(n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.

(v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.

(n.) Opprobrium.

(n.) A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

(imp. & p. p.) of Barter

(n.) One who barters.

(n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

(n.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

(a.) Alt. of Baritone

(a.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.

(a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

(n.) Alt. of Baritone

(n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

(n.) A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.

(n.) A person having a voice of such range.

(n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.

(n.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood.

(a.) Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.

(n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

(n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.

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

(a.) That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

(n.) Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.

(n.) Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.

(n.) Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.

(adv.) In a biting manner.

(n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

(n.) A binnacle.

(adv.) In a bitter manner.

(n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.

(a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.

(a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

(a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

(a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.

(a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.

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

(n.) The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.

(n.) An assembly of hearers; an audience.

(n.) An auditorium.

(a.) Auditory.

(p. pr.) Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

(a.) Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.

(n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

(a.) Shameless; unblushing.

(n.) The quality or state of being a base.

(n.) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.

(n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

(n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.

(a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

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

(n.) A term made up of the two parts / + /1 /-1, where / and /1 are vectors.

(a.) Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly.

(n.) A publication issued every two weeks.

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

(n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base.

(n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.

(n.) Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

(n.) A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.

(n.) A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.

(n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.

(n.) A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.

(n.) A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.

(n.) A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.

(v. t. & i.) To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.

(n.) The office of an augur.

(a.) Relating to augurs or to augury.

(a.) Full of augury; foreboding.

(pl. ) of Augury

(n.) Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.

(adv.) In an august manner.

(a.) Relating to a hall.

(n.) At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian.

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

(n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

(n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.

(n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.

(n.) The black raspberry.

(n.) See Bluefin.

(n.) The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

(a.) Adventurous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the aurelia.

(n.) An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

(a.) Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.

(n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

(n.) The act or process of making black.

(a.) Somewhat black.

(imp. & p. p.) of Basset

(n.) A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.

(n.) See Bascinet.

(n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.

(n.) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.

(n.) A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.

(n.) A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

(n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

(a.) Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.

(a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

(n.) The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

(n.) The procreation of a bastard child.

(a.) Italian.

(pl. ) of Auspice

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

(n.) The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.

(n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.

(n.) Suspension; temporary suppression.

(n.) Abeyance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Abhor

(n.) One who abhors.

(n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).

(a.) Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.

(a.) Faulty; meriting blame.

(a.) Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious.

(n.) A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

(imp. & p. p.) of Blanch

(n.) One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

(n.) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

(v. t.) To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

(v. t.) To make agreeable and enticing.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.

(n.) Abatement; diminution.

(a.) Having the character of bathos.

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

(n.) The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

(n.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

(n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

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

(n.) The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

(n.) The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.

(a.) Having no plan.

(a.) Having papulae; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.

(a.) Covered with, or characterized by, papulae; papulose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.

(n.) Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

(n.) Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor.

(n.) An imaginary animal borne as a charge, having wings, an eagle's head, and a short tail; -- sometimes represented without wings.

(a.) Without nails; having no nails.

(imp. & p. p.) of Operate

(n.) That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

(n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an oospore.

(pl. ) of Ootheca

(n.) A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.

(n.) One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

(n.) the radical NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

(n.) The group NO2, usually called the nitro group.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.

(v. t.) To make noble; to nobiliate.

(n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

(n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.

(n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

(n.) A single algebraic expression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction, equality, or inequality.

(a.) Consisting of but a single term or expression.

(n.) Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called cyanuric acid. See Cyanuric.

(a.) Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.

(n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

(adv. & a.) In the open-air.

(n.) The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

(n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico.

(n.) A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Algeria.

(n.) A native of Algeria.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Algiers or Algeria.

(n.) A native or one of the people of Algiers or Algeria. Also, a pirate.

(n.) Chilliness; coldness

(n.) coldness and collapse.

(n.) The study or science of algae or seaweeds.

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

(a.) Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.

(v. t.) To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

(v. t.) To estimate; to conjecture.

(n.) A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90¡, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc.

(n.) One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

(n.) Alt. of Algorithm

(n.) An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable.

(n.) The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

(n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.

(v. t.) To praise; to commend.

(a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

(a.) Having a pyxidium.

(n.) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

(n.) The theca of mosses.

(n.) The American night heron. See under Night.

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

(n.) The state of being alienated or transferred to another.

(a.) Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.

(v. t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

(v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.

(n.) A stranger; an alien.

(n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.

(n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.

(n.) One who treats diseases of the mind.

(imp. & p. p.) of Alight

(imp. & p. p.) of Apprise

(n.) See Appraisal.

(n.) An appraiser.

(n.) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.

(v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

(v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.

(v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.

(v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.

(v. t.) To take approaches to.

(v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.

(v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near.

(v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances.

(v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.

(v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

(v. i.) See Approaching.

(v. t.) To appropriate.

(n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.

(a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.

(n.) Quackery.

(n.) A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.

(n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

(n.) The fourth part; the quarter.

(n.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center.

(n.) One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.

(n.) An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.

(a.) Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

(n.) Approbation; sanction.

(imp. & p. p.) of Approve

(n.) One who approves. Formerly, one who made proof or trial.

(n.) An informer; an accuser.

(n.) One who confesses a crime and accuses another. See 1st Approvement, 2.

(v. t.) A bailiff or steward; an agent.

(a.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

(a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.

(n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.

(a.) Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.

(a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

(a.) Squared; suited; correspondent.

(a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

(a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.

(a.) The quadrate bone.

(a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.

(v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

(v. t. & i.) To bask in the sun.

(n.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

(n.) The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies.

(pl. ) of Alkali

(v. t.) To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

(v. i.) To become changed into an alkali.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an alkali or to alkalies; having the properties of an alkali.

(v. t.) To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.

(a.) Alt. of Alkaloidal

(n.) An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

(n.) Same as Cacodylic acid.

(n.) A spontaneously inflammable liquid, having a repulsive odor, and consisting of cacodyl and its oxidation products; -- called also Cadel's fuming liquid.

(n.) A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

(n.) The quantity an apron can hold.

(a.) Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

(a.) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate.

(n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn.

(n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation.

(n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness.

(n.) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.

(n.) A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

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

(n.) A kind of light armor used in the sixteenth century, esp. by the Swiss.

(n.) The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

(n.) A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

(a.) Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.

(n.) Alt. of Apyrexy

(a.) Alt. of Aquarian

(a.) Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

(n.) One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

(n.) An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

(n.) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

(n.) A constellation south of Pegasus.

(a.) Inhabiting the water.

(n.) Alt. of Aquatinta

(n.) A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

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

(n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

(n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.

(n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

(n.) Alt. of Alleluiah

(n.) Same as Questor.

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

(n.) Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.

(adv.) In a quaint manner.

(n.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

(a.) Having the form of water.

(a.) Belonging to or like an eagle.

(a.) Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose

(n.) The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.

(n.) An arachnidan.

(n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings.

(n.) An alley.

(a.) Able to enter into alliance.

(n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.

(n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

(n.) The persons or parties allied.

(v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

(v. t.) To tie; to unite by some tie.

(a.) Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.

(n.) A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus). See Howler, n., 2.

(a.) Alt. of Aramean

(n.) An idiom of the Aramaic.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Araneoidea

(n. pl.) The order of Arachnida that includes the spiders.

(a.) Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.

(a.) Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid.

(pl. ) of Arango

(n.) A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

(n.) The act of dashing against, or striking upon.

(n.) The angler.

(v. t.) To distribute or assign; to allot.

(v. t.) To localize.

(a.) Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.

(a.) Anything held allodially.

(n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud.

(a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

(n.) A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.

(v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.

(n.) The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.

(v. t.) To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

(n.) Alt. of Arbalist

(n.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc.

(a.) Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration.

(n.) Fertilization of the pistil of a plant by pollen from another of the same species; cross-fertilization.

(n.) An allopathist.

(imp. & p. p.) of Allot

(n.) The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much?"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size.

(n.) The extent or extension of a general conception, that is, the number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also, its content or comprehension, that is, the number of its constituent qualities, attributes, or relations.

(n.) The measure of a syllable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced; as, the long or short quantity of a vowel or syllable.

(n.) The relative duration of a tone.

(n.) That which can be increased, diminished, or measured; especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are applicable.

(n.) A determinate or estimated amount; a sum or bulk; a certain portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities.

(a.) Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees.

(a.) Attached to, found in or upon, or frequenting, woods or trees; as, arboreal animals.

(pl. ) of Arboretum

(n.) One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees.

(a.) Formed by trees.

(n.) A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub.

(n.) One to whom anything is allotted; one to whom an allotment is made.

(n.) One who allots.

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

(a.) Provided with prey.

(n.) A worker in a stone quarry.

(pl. ) of Quarry

(imp. & p. p.) of Quarry

(n.) Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.

(a.) Alt. of Arcadic

(a.) Ancient; pertaining to the earliest period in geological history.

(n.) The earliest period in geological period, extending up to the Lower Silurian. It includes an Azoic age, previous to the appearance of life, and an Eozoic age, including the earliest forms of life.

(a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.

(a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.

(n.) Am antiquary.

(n.) One who uses archaisms.

(v. t.) To make appear archaic or antique.

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

(n.) The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.

(n.) The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

(adv.) Altogether.

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

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

(a.) That allures; attracting; charming; tempting.

(n.) A figurative or symbolical reference.

(n.) A prince of the imperial family of Austria.

(n.) A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.

(a.) Figurative; symbolical.

(a.) Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.

(a.) Allusive.

(a.) Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

(n.) Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

(n.) An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.

(n.) Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.

(n.) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

(n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.

(adv.) Everywhere.

(n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine.

(n.) The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

(n.) A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).

(n.) A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf.

(n.) Same as Quadrate.

(n.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

(pref.) Chief; primary; primordial.

(a.) Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.

(a.) Great; extreme; terrible.

(n.) An act of charity.

(n.) Persons supported by alms; almsmen.