(n.) Alt. of Agallochum

(a.) Somewhat purple.

(n.) A copy or transcript.

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

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

(a.) Vulgar.

(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.

(n.) See Coranach.

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

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

(a.) Friesic.

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

(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.

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

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

(n.) See Canine tooth, under Canine.

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

(n.) The orange filefish. See Filefish.

(n.) The winter flounder. See Flounder.

(n.) Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish.

(n.) A beach lying along the sea.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

(a.) Puerile; trifling; weak.

(v. t. & i.) To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch.

(v. t.) To exceed in watching.

(v. t.) To exceed in weight or value.

(n.) A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews.

(a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

(a.) Somewhat small.

(a.) Like a dowdy.

(a.) Somewhat drab in color.

(a.) Having the character of a drab or low wench.

(a.) Worthless; draffy.

(a.) Foul with lees; feculent.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious.

(v. t.) To drive from a bench or seat.

(v. t.) To deprive (a bencher) of his privileges.

(a.) Somewhat droll.

(n.) A stand, or case, for pen and ink.

(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.) Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.

(n.) The European linnet.

(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.

(n.) Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

(n.) Alt. of Ragabrash

(n.) An inventory; a record.

(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.

(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).

(a.) Somewhat black.

(v. t.) To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

(v. t.) To make agreeable and enticing.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.

(n.) The angler.

(a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

(n.) An allopathist.

(n.) Sulphur.

(a.) Rather queer; somewhat singular.

(conj.) Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.

(n.) An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.

(n.) A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

(n.) A color inclining to purple.

(a.) Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk.

(n.) An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.

(a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.

(n.) A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

(n.) A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae.

(v. t.) To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak.

(a.) Somewhat blunt.

(n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.

(v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

(a.) Doubtful; skittish.

(n.) Same as Backsheesh.

(v. t.) To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

(v. t.) To hand down; to transmit.

(v. t.) To give; to offer; to commit.

(n.) The common gourd (plant or fruit).

(n.) The fruit of the calabash tree.

(n.) A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.

(n.) A part of a turtle which is next to the upper shell. It contains a fatty and gelatinous substance of a dull greenish tinge, much esteemed as a delicacy in preparations of turtle.

(v. t.) To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully.

(n.) See Ladyfish.

(a.) Stupid; dull.

(n.) A small West African chevrotain (Hyaemoschus aquaticus), resembling the musk deer.

(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

(a.) Hot-headed; furious.

(n.) To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.

(n.) To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.

(n.) A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.

(n.) The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.

(v. t.) To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook.

(v. t.) To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.

(a.) Having the appearance or qualities of a shopkeeper, or shopman.

(v. t.) To remove the polish or glaze from.

(a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.

(v. t.) To discredit; to contradict.

(v. t.) To deprive of worth; to degrade.

(n. & v.) Same as Dispatch.

(n.) A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproidae; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout.

(n.) An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.

(n.) Any one of several California scorpaenoid food fishes of the genus Sebastichthys, as the red rockfish (S. ruber). They are among the most important of California market fishes. Called also rock cod, and garrupa.

(n.) The striped bass. See Bass.

(n.) Any one of several species of Florida and Bermuda groupers of the genus Epinephelus.

(n.) An American fresh-water darter; the log perch.

(n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal.

(a.) Rather broad; moderately broad.

(a.) Of or like a scamp; knavish; as, scampish conduct.

(a.) Beastly; brutal.

(v. t.) To exceed in worth.

(v. t.) To overflow.

(n.) An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

(a.) Somewhat brown.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.

(n.) A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).

(n.) A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

(n.) See Tollbooth.

(v. t.) To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown.

(a.) Peculiar to Greece.

(a.) Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.

(n.) The pollock; -- called also, coalsey, colemie, colmey, coal whiting, etc. See Pollock.

(n.) The beshow or candlefish of Alaska.

(n.) The cobia.

(n.) A canine tooth of the upper jaw.

(v. t.) To bring from far; to seek out studiously.

(n.) Anything brought from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem.

(n.) The common harbor seal.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant.

(n.) A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

(a.) Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.

(n.) The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

(n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.

(v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.

(n.) A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.

(n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

(n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

(n.) The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

(n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.

(n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

(n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

(n.) One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.

(n.) Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

(n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.

(n.) Intensity; -- said of light or color.

(n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.

(n.) A strong place; a stronghold.

(v. t.) To strengthen.

(a.) Earnest and active in matters of no moment; bustling.

(n.) Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

(n.) Rarely known; unusual; strange.

(n.) One who heals diseases of cows; a cow doctor.

(a.) Somewhat sour or cross.

(n.) Any serranoid fish of the genus Rhypticus; -- so called from the soapy feeling of its skin.

(n.) Alt. of Crayfish

(n.) Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mammoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The common European species is Astacus fluviatilis.

(n.) See Crawfish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a clan; closely united, like a clan; disposed to associate only with one's clan or clique; actuated by the traditions, prejudices, habits, etc., of a clan.

(v. t.) To attach again.

(v. t.) To banish again.

(a.) Pertaining to Romanism.

(n.) The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.

(n.) A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.

(n.) The bush or shrub which bears roses.

(n.) A large marine scorpaenoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

(v. t.) To polish again.

(v. t.) To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.

(v. t.) To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously; to upbraid.

(v.) The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt; contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive reflections; as, severe reproach.

(v.) A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace.

(v.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.

(a.) Somewhat rough.

(a.) Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure.

(a.) Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of a rowdy.

(n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

(n.) Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering floors, etc.

(n.) A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

(n.) The banner fish, or spikefish (Histiophorus.)

(n.) The basking, or liver, shark.

(n.) The quillback.

(a.) Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.

(n.) An Australian plant (Atriplex nummularia) of the Goosefoot family.

(n.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America (Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

(n.) Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

(v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit.

(a.) Resembling clods; gross; low; stupid; boorish.

(n.) A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge

(n.) A cartridge box.

(n.) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.

(n.) A gunner's bag for ammunition

(n.) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.

(n.) A cantalever, console, corbel, or modillion, which has the form of a scroll of paper

(n.) A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

(n.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign.

(a.) Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.

(a.) Rude; clownish.

(a.) Disposed to club together; as, a clubbish set.

(v. t.) To crush; to quash; to squash.

(a.) Nearly square.

(a.) Like a dandy.

(n.) A long, thin fish of the arctic seas (Trachypterus arcticus).

(n.) The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

(n.) A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries.

(n.) A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

(v. t.) To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.

(a.) Like a dwarf; below the common stature or size; very small; petty; as, a dwarfish animal, shrub.

(a.) Stiff; harsh.

(n.) An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.

(n.) See Feldspar.

(adv.) Far forth.

(a.) Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady.

(a.) Tough in a slight degree.

(n.) An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

(n.) One of the Myomorpha.

(v. t.) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.

(v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.

(n.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.

(a.) Full of vapors; vaporous.

(a.) Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.

(n.) An American freshwater bream, or sunfish (Chaenobryttus gulosus); -- called also red-eyed bream.

(n.) A washbowl.

(n.) Same as Washerwoman, 2.

(a.) Resembling water; thin; watery.

(a.) Somewhat watery; moist; as, waterish land.

(v. t.) To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

(v. t.) To open by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam.

(n.) A substance which is similar to another in crystalline form and composition.

(n.) The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

(v. t.) To snatch up.

(v. t.) To pleach; to interweave.

(n.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood.

(v. t.) To famish; to starve.

(n.) A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); -- called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

(n.) A small fishing vessel met with in the Persian Gulf.

(a.) Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.

(a.) Extreme; excessive.

(a.) Next in order after the fifty-ninth.

(a.) Constituting or being one one of sixty equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by sixty; one of sixty equal parts forming a whole.

(n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

(n.) An intaglio.

(n.) A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

(v. i.) To fight slightly or in small parties; to engage in a skirmish or skirmishes; to act as skirmishers.

(v. i.) A slight fight in war; a light or desultory combat between detachments from armies, or between detached and small bodies of troops.

(v. i.) A slight contest.

(v. t.) Easily frightened; timorous; shy; untrustworthy; as, a skittish colt.

(v. t.) Wanton; restive; freakish; volatile; changeable; fickle.

(a.) Like the skunk, especially in odor.

(adv. & a.) Very high.

(a.) Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

(pl. ) of Dogtooth

(n.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m.

(a.) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

(a.) Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.

(a.) Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.

(a.) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

(v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.

(v. t.) To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

(v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.

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

(v. i.) To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.

(n.) A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

(a.) Somewhat steep.

(v. t.) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.

(a.) Like a spark; airy; gay.

(a.) Showy; well-dresed; fine.

(a.) Somewhat stiff.

(v. t.) To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate.

(v. i.) To make search; to try to find something.

(v. t. ) To search for.

(a.) Like a stock; stupid; blockish.

(v. t.) See Intrench.

(n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

(n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sheep.

(a.) Like a sheep; bashful; over-modest; meanly or foolishly diffident; timorous to excess.

(n.) The visible majesty of the Divine Presence, especially when resting or dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy seat, in the Tabernacle, or in the Temple of Solomon; -- a term used in the Targums and by the later Jews, and adopted by Christians.

(v. t.) To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.

(v. i.) To march away.

(v. t.) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

(v. t.) To rid; to free.

(v. t.) To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

(v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste.

(v. t.) To send out of the world; to put to death.

(v. i.) To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

(v. t.) The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.

(v. t.) Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

(v. t.) The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

(v. t.) A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.

(v. t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.

(a.) Somewhat stout; somewhat corpulent.

(n.) The angel fish (Squatina).

(n.) The angler (Lophius).

(n.) The chief of a family or tribe.

(a.) Next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.

(a.) Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.

(n.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

(a.) Peevish; froward.

(a.) Cross-tempered; scornful.

(a.) Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.

(v. t.) To polish thoroughly.

(v. t.) To whiten. See Blanch.

(a.) Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.

(v. t.) To furnish with a furlough; to grant leave of absence to, as to an offcer or soldier.

(n.) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.

(pl. ) of Eyetooth

(v. t.) To ambush.

(v. i.) To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.

(n.) Encroachment.

(a.) Slightly faint; somewhat faint.

(a.) Of or pertaining to night.

(a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

(n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.

(v. i.) To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.

(v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.

(v. i.) To cause to droop or pine.

(n.) See Languishiment.

(n.) Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England.

(n.) The governor of a province or people.

(v. t.) To wish beforehand.

(n.) Earshot.

(adv.) In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously.

(v. t.) To address respectfully with the term forsooth.

(n.) A person who used forsooth much; a very ceremonious and deferential person.

(a.) Following the thirty-ninth, or preceded by thirty-nine units, things, or parts.

(a.) Constituting one of forty equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-ninth.

(a.) Like, or pertaining to, the Franks.

(a.) Apt to change the mind suddenly; whimsical; capricious.

(n.) Any one of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, as F. catenatus.

(a.) Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish.

(n.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature.

(n.) Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.

(n.) A substance which crystallizes in three distinct forms, or which has three distinct physical states; also, any one of these distinct forms. See Trimorphism, 1.

(n.) Anything in three parts or leaves.

(n.) A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.

(n.) A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.

(n.) A sucker fish.

(n.) A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

(a.) Goodly.

(n.) A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.

(n.) A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

(a.) Like an idiot; foolish.

(v. t.) To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.

(v. t.) To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself.

(v. i.) To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown.

(n.) Unsoundness; disease.

(n.) An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace.

(v. t.) To undo or overthrow by preaching.

(n.) A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building.

(n.) A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

(n.) A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

(n.) A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

(n.) Same as Heptarchist.

(n.) See Angler, n., 2.

(n.) An oceanic fish of the genus Antennarius or Pterophrynoides; -- called also mousefish and toadfish.

(n.) A projecting tooth.

(n.) Alt. of Heretog

(adv.) With this.

(adv.) In like degree; in like manner; seeing that; considering that; since; -- followed by as. See In as much as, under In, prep.

(prep.) Through.

(a.) Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house.

(a.) Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

(adv.) Thoroughly.

(adv.) Through.

(n.) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.

(n.) A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

(v. t.) To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

(v. t.) To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.

(v. t.) To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.

(a.) Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

(a.) Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.

(a.) Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.

(n.) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order; as, princely hierarchs.

(a.) Like a tiger; tigrish.

(a.) Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

(a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.

(a.) Hot; sultry.

(a.) Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.

(n.) The frogfish.

(a.) Like a fiend; diabolically wicked or cruel; infernal; malignant; devilish; hellish.

(a.) Next in order after the forty-ninth; -- the ordinal of fifty.

(a.) Consisting of one of fifty equal parts or divisions.

(n.) One of fifty equal parts; the quotient of a unit divided by fifty.

(a.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

(a.) Four.

(n.) Alt. of Hashish

(n.) The common European grosbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris); -- called also cherry finch, and coble.

(n.) One who works in tin; a tinner.

(a.) Somewhat young.

(n.) A sea robin having large, winglike pectoral fins. See Sea robin, under Robin.

(n.) See Monteth.

(n.) A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.

(n.) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

(n.) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish.

(n.) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.

(a.) Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.

(n.) The chief of a phyle, or tribe.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.

(n.) A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus.

(n.) A growth or development inward.

(n.) A tunnel.

(a.) Somewhat sweet.

(a.) Dandified; stylish.

(n.) Offal of a deer.

(v. t.) To remove the offal from (a deer).

(a.) Sylphlike.

(n.) A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

(n.) Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborious or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom.

(v. t.) To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.

(v. t.) To cut off; to pare away.

(v. t.) To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.

(v. t.) To confine; to limit; to restrict.

(v. t.) To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.

(v. i.) To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.

(v. t.) To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.

(n.) A bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, bearing beautiful spikes of fragrant flowers. H. orientalis is a common variety.

(n.) A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.

(n.) The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.

(n.) A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.

(n.) One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

(n.) Same as A/rolite.

(v. t. & i.) To afflict with, or perish from, hunger.

(adv.) So; to such a degree; in such wise; -- followed by that or as, and formerly sometimes by both. Cf. Inasmuch.

(v. t.) To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.

(v. t.) To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings.

(v. t.) To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

(v. t.) To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church.

(v. t.) Same as Unclinch.

(v. t.) To cause to be no longer clinched; to open; as, to unclinch the fist.

(v. t.) To open, as something closely shut.

(v. t.) To disengage, as a clutch.

(n.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.

(n.) See Muskrat.

(a.) Full of pranks; frolicsome.

(a.) Somewhat proud.

(n.) A hotchpotch.

(n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.

(n.) A large, thick, clumsy, marine fish (Cyclopterus lumpus) of Europe and America. The color is usually translucent sea green, sometimes purplish. It has a dorsal row of spiny tubercles, and three rows on each side, but has no scales. The ventral fins unite and form a ventral sucker for adhesion to stones and seaweeds. Called also lumpsucker, cock-paddle, sea owl.

(n.) A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

(n.) Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo.

(n.) The angler.

(n.) A swellfish.

(v. t.) To deprive of polish; to make impolite.

(n.) Any fish belonging to the Dipnoi; -- so called because they have both lungs and gills.

(n.) Same as Malagasy.

(v. t.) To fish to excess.

(a.) Too high.

(v. i.) To drive on rashly; to go to excess; hence, to exaggerate; to boast.

(n.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

(n.) The sunfish (Mola).

(n.) Alt. of Theosopher

(a.) Somewhat thick.

(n.) Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

(a.) Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

(a.) Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.

(a.) Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice.

(a.) Somewhat flat.

(a.) Somewhat thin.

(adv.) In a bold, careless manner; at random.

(adv.) With a slap; all at once; slap.

(v. t.) To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast; as, to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall, or to slapdash a wall.

(v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

(v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.

(v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

(v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

(v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

(v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

(v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

(v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

(v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

(v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.

(n.) The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

(n.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea), and others, are American.

(a.) Relating to nymphs; ladylike.

(n.) See Vanquish, n.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.

(a.) Somewhat like a viper; viperous.

(n.) One of the West Goths. See the Note under Goth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

(a.) Of the nature of a vowel.

(n. pl.) Stringed instruments.

(v. t.) To exceed in blushing; to surpass in rosy color.

(a.) Too much.

(adv.) In too great a degree; too much.

(n.) An excess; a surplus.

(a.) Exccessively rich.

(v. t.) To surpass or outdo in laughing.

(v. t.) To laugh (one) out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down.

(v. t.) To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

(v. t.) To reach beyond.

(n.) A large, handsome oceanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabe.

(n.) A labroid fish (Harpe rufa) of Florida and the West Indies.

(a.) Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate.

(n.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.

(n.) The Australian white-quilled honey eater (Entomyza albipennis).

(n.) Want of faith; distrust.

(n. pl.) A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.

(v. t.) To match unsuitably.

(n.) A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

(v. t.) To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.

(v. t.) To vouch falsely.

(a.) Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place.

(a.) Stiff like a poker.

(n.) The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

(n.) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

(n.) Dried cod, exported from Norway.

(a.) Trickish; artful.

(a.) Snappish; peevish.

(n.) An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus, especially M. saxatilis, or M. nebulosos, of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting, surf whiting, and barb.

(n.) The opah.

(n.) The common cero; also, the spotted cero. See Cero.

(n.) The queenfish.

(a.) Ticklish; kittle.

(n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.

(v. i.) To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.

(n.) The garfish or sea needle.

(a.) Like a puppy.