(n.) Asphodel.

(a.) Annoying.

(a.) Alt. of Anomuran

(a.) Belonging to the antennae.

(a.) Alt. of Arrhizous

(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.

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

(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.

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

(a.) Without tongue; tongueless.

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

(a.) Alt. of Pyrexical

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

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

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

(a.) Pertaining to a commune.

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

(a.) Circinate.

(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

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

(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.

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

(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.

(n. & v.) See Control.

(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.

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

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

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

(a.) Brisk; lively; frolicsome.

(n.) The song thrush.

(n.) Nonsense.

(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.) Full of folly.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a notary; done or taken by a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.

(adv.) In utter confusion; with confused violence.

(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.) An impost.

(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.

(v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

(a.) Abounding with charms.

(a.) Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

(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.) A young cock.

(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.

(v. i.) Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility.

(a.) Made of cheveril; pliant.

(a.) Congenial.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

(a.) Alt. of Oxygonial

(v. i.) To boil over or unduly.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

(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 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 white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.

(n.) One of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. See Hexane.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Full of dreams.

(a.) Given to sneering.

(a.) Funereal; moaning.

(n.) A white amorphous substance obtained as a polymeric modification of acrolein.

(v. t.) To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.

(n.) A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.

(n.) The Guelder-rose.

(v. t.) To disembowel.

(n.) A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stamens or stamina; consisting in stamens.

(n.) A stanchion.

(adv.) In some degree; somewhat.

(a.) Apt to start; skittish.

(a.) Full of state; stately.

(a.) Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.

(a.) Pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.

(a.) Teaching wisdom.

(a.) Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics.

(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.

(a.) Analogous.

(a.) Lawless; anarchical.

(a.) Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow.

(n.) Alt. of Astrofell

(n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

(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.

(a.) Relating to the atlas.

(a.) Anterior; cephalic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

(n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to atoms.

(a.) Extremely minute; tiny.

(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.) 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.

(a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony.

(a.) Alt. of Biseriate

(a.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

(a.) That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

(a.) Auditory.

(a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

(a.) Relating to augurs or to augury.

(a.) Faulty; meriting blame.

(a.) Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious.

(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.) 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.

(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.) An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable.

(n.) See Appraisal.

(n.) Approbation; sanction.

(a.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

(n.) The quantity an apron can hold.

(a.) Alt. of Aquarian

(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.

(a.) Of or relating to an arbiter or an arbitration.

(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.

(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.

(pref.) Chief; primary; primordial.

(a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records.

(a.) Kindly; merciful.

(a.) Belonging to an abbey; as, abbatial rights.

(a.) Of or pertaining to silver; resembling, containing, or combined with, silver.

(a.) Full of amazement.

(a.) Belonging to armor, or to the heraldic arms or escutcheon of a family.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an amphora.

(a.) Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.

(a.) Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.

(a.) Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man.

(a.) Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.

(a.) Past the middle of life; in the third stage.

(a.) Full of, characterized by, or causing, joy and felicity; happy in the highest degree.

(n.) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

(n.) The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.

(n.) A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

(n.) A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).

(n.) A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.

(n.) A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

(a.) Full of blushes.

(a.) Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.

(n.) A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

(n.) Beheading.

(n.) A perching bird of India, of the genus Eurylaimus.

(n.) A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

(a.) Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial.

(n.) As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough.

(v. t.) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.

(n.) A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.

(n.) A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.

(a.) Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.

(n.) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula.

(n.) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.

(n.) The mendole; a small worthless Mediterranean fish considered poisonous by the ancients. See Mendole.

(n.) A North American carnivore (Bassaris astuta), about the size of a cat, related to the raccoons. It inhabits Mexico, Texas, and California.

(n.) Restoration.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a caesura.

(n.) The act of retaining; retention.

(a.) Rustic.

(a.) Intended to reverse; implying reversal.

(n.) The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.

(n.) A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment, which amounts to an official declaration that it is false; the reversal of an attainder, or of an outlawry, by which the sentence is rendered void.

(n.) A review.

(n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.

(a.) Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.

(a.) Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.

(a.) Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.

(n.) A nonvocal consonant.

(v. t.) To cover with scrawls; to scribble over.

(n.) The act of bestowing; disposal.

(n.) A handsome girl.

(n.) A cur/ing match between clubs.

(v. t.) To reduce to thralldom; to inthrall.

(n.) The act or the result of betraying.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

(a.) Having, or terminating in, two tails.

(a.) Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

(a.) Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.

(a.) Having two legs.

(a.) Having the nature or appearance of a bract.

(a.) Having two teeth.

(a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.

(a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.

(n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.

(n.) A plant which exists or lasts for two years.

(a.) Having the opposite surfaces alike.

(n.) The European redstart; -- so called from the red color of its tail.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.

(a.) Rhonchial.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Rasores, or gallinaceous birds, as the peacock, domestic fowl, partridge, quail, and the like.

(a.) Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.

(a.) Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause.

(a.) Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king.

(a.) Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority.

(a.) Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.

(a.) Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.

(a.) Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.

(a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.

(n.) A rational being.

(n.) A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen bill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) of Beak.

(n.) The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

(n.) Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.

(n.) Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property.

(n.) Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of.

(n.) A girl employed in a shop.

(a.) Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.

(n.) A shrapnel shell; shrapnel shells, collectively.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sheriff.

(n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

(a.) Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.

(a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.

(a.) Alt. of Dithecous

(a.) Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous.

(n.) A despising; contempt.

(a.) Determined by destiny; fated.

(n.) Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.

(n.) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned.

(n.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.

(n.) Having a cause.

(n.) A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

(n.) A marble, clouded and veined with white, gray, yellow, and red, in which the yellow usually prevails. It is also called Siena marble, from its locality.

(n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

(n.) A pillow block; a low housing.

(n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

(a.) Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

(v. t.) To surpass in a rivalry.

(v. t.) To overwork.

(v. t.) To weary excessively; to exhaust.

(v. t.) To veil or cover.

(v. t.) To overflow.

(a.) Of a bright red or purple color.

(a.) Harmful; doing damage; pernicious.

(a.) Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.

(a.) Having much scenery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to scenery; of the nature of scenery; theatrical.

(a.) Full of scent or odor; odorous.

(a.) Of quick or keen smell.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a scepter; like a scepter.

(n.) Sentinel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the cerebrum.

(n.) One of a class of lingual consonants in the East Indian languages. See Lingual, n.

(a.) Full of scorn or contempt; contemptuous; disdainful.

(a.) Treated with scorn; exciting scorn.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebrae.

(n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.

(a.) Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.

(a.) Slight; thin; lean; poor.

(n.) See Bulbul.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza.

(n.) Same as Gambrel.

(a.) Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful.

(a.) Simoniacal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.

(a.) Not vocal; destitute of tone.

(n.) Any sail extended on a stay.

(n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.

(n.) The whimbrel.

(n.) A sheep of the second year. [Written also hogrel.] Ash.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, the petrified cases of the larvae of certain insects.

(a.) Toothsome.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.

(a.) Full of grief or sorrow.

(n.) The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.

(n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt.

(a.) Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

(a.) Agonizing; sad.

(n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

(n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera.

(n.) One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.

(n.) A breathing hole; a vent or ventiduct.

(n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.

(a.) Cautions; wary; watchful.

(a.) Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.

(a.) Having a high relish; savory.

(a.) Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery.

(a.) Pertaining to the epimera.

(a.) Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.

(a.) Same as Episodic.

(a.) Designating the splenial bone.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.

(n.) The splenial bone.

(a.) Wasteful; rapacious.

(n.) The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.

(n.) Hence, a small quantity.

(a.) Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion.

(a.) Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.

(a.) Alt. of Springall

(n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

(a.) Full of error; wrong.

(n.) See Escurial.

(n.) The skunk.

(n.) A bull issued by a pope in the period between his election and coronation.

(a.) Having the same foci; as, confocal quadrics.

(a.) Half oval.

(n.) Same as Coistril.

(v. t.) A hard brittle cake or biscuit.

(a.) Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

(a.) Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious.

(a.) Full of abuse; abusive.

(a.) Nearly, but not exactly, conical.

(v. t.) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.

(v. i.) To throw snowballs.

(n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.

(n.) Watch; guard.

(n.) A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.

(v. t.) To watch over like a sentinel.

(v. t.) To furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.

(n.) A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil.

(n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.

(n.) A typical figure, consisting of seven equal segments of a circle, used to denote the gifts of the Holy Chost, the seven sacraments as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, etc.

(a.) Having power to promote putrefaction.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.

(a.) Of or belonging to a cantor.

(a.) Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File.

(n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

(n.) The California chimaera. See Chimaera.

(n.) Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2.

(n.) The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.

(n.) See Ringtail, 2.

(n.) A bird having a distinct band of color across the tail, as the hen harrier.

(n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.

(a.) Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular.

(a.) Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.

(a.) Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.

(n.) A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits.

(n.) The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

(n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.

(n.) Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.

(n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity.

(n.) Any act of retaliation.

(n.) The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds.

(a.) Pertaining to a rector or governor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ommateum.

(a.) Loud; clamorous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an arrow; resembling an arrow; furnished with an arrowlike appendage.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sagittal suture; in the region of the sagittal suture; rabdoidal; as, the sagittal furrow, or groove, on the inner surface of the roof of the skull.

(a.) In the mesial plane; mesial; as, a sagittal section of an animal.

(n.) A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

(n.) Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.

(n.) The radical (CO)'', occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc.

(n.) The complex radical, CO.OH, regarded as the essential and characteristic constituent which all oxygen acids of carbon (as formic, acetic, benzoic acids, etc.) have in common; -- called also oxatyl.

(a.) Belonging to a prison.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the clergy; suitable for the clergy.

(a.) Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing.

(a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.

(a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.

(a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.

(a.) Mulled red wine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a client.

(a.) Climatic.

(n.) Alt. of Sangreal

(n.) See Holy Grail, under Grail.

(v. i.) Alt. of Clinic

(n.) A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.

(n.) Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.

(n.) A saphead.

(n.) A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs.

(n.) A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse.

(n.) Alt. of Sarcocolla

(a.) Of or pertaining to a satrap, or a satrapy.

(n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.]

(v. t.) To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and by cutting the cable as soon as she pays off on the other tack. Clubhauling is attempted only in an exigency.

(n.) The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.

(a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.

(a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.

(n.) A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.

(a.) Like a dunce; duncish.

(n.) A heap of dung.

(n.) Any mean situation or condition; a vile abode.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion.

(n.) Same as Cesspool.

(a.) Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.

(a.) Guilty of crime or sin.

(a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.

(a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.

(n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.

(a.) Same as Crinite, 1.

(n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.

(a.) Alt. of Rakehelly

(n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

(n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art; of the nature of a criticism; accurate; as, critical knowledge; a critical dissertation.

(n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely judicious.

(n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

(n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a critical analysis of a subject.

(n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.

(a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.

(a.) Liable to undergo death; mortal.

(n.) A purse.

(a.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves.

(a.) Declining; sloping.

(n.) A light covered carriage, having four wheels and seats for four or more persons, usually drawn by one horse.

(a.) Cuboid.

(n.) A variety of opal not possessing opalescence.

(a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.

(a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

(a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.

(a.) Pertaining to a culmen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to culture.

(v. i.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the family Sciuridae. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows.

(v. i.) One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.

(a.) Distinguished among others of the same class or kind; special; concerning a species or a single object; principal; particular; as, in an especial manner or degree.

(n.) The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.

(n.) The uniting or allying one's self with anything; maintenance; adoption; as, the espousal of a quarrel.

(n.) A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission.

(n.) The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.

(a.) Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.

(a.) Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.

(n.) Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

(n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.

(n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.

(n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.

(n.) Discharging an office or function.

(a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

(a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.

(n.) Alt. of Taurocolla

(a.) Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.

(n.) A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound.

(a.) Athletic; gymnastic.

(a.) Spiral in arrangement or action.

(a.) Having the planes arranged spirally, so that they incline all to the right (or left) of a vertical line; -- said of certain hemihedral forms.

(a.) Turning the plane of polarization circularly or spirally to the right or left.

(n.) Formed or acquired by habit or use.

(n.) According to habit; established by habit; customary; constant; as, the habiual practice of sin.

(n.) A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

(a.) Affording defense; defensive.

(a.) Entire; total.

(n.) See Harebell.

(n.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.

(a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.

(n.) An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.

(n.) Any bird of the family Bucerotidae, of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

(n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

(n.) A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn.

(n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for.

(a.) Hospitable.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.

(a.) Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit.

(a.) Deranged in mind; out of one's senses.

(a.) Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time.

(a.) Of or pertaining to machines.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.

(n.) The dingo.

(a.) Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.

(n.) A basin, or bowl, to hold water for washing one's hands, face, etc.

(a.) Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.

(a.) Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful person; a wasteful disposition.

(a.) Waste; desolate; unoccupied; untilled.

(a.) Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits.

(a.) Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.

(a.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.

(a.) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.

(a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.

(a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus.

(n.) The venereal disease; syphilis.

(a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratric acid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.

(a.) Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict.

(a.) Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.

(a.) Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.

(n.) The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; -- so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.

(v. t.) To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty.

(n.) An outside seat on a diligence.

(n.) A luggage case on the top of a coach.

(n.) Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing, printing, or writing paper, etc.

(n.) A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars.

(n.) A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

(n.) The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the urethra.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a uropod.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

(a.) Relating to a ganglion; ganglionic.

(a.) Of the nature of aconite.

(a.) Wanting a skull.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the acromion.

(a.) Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.

(a.) Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.

(a.) True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant.

(a.) Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation.

(a.) Ganoid.

(n.) The great auk; also, the razorbill. See Auk.

(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, detritus.

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

(n.) The shell of any marine mollusk.

(a.) Pertaining to the skeleton.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a deacon.

(a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.

(n.) A right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.

(n.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.

(n.) A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.

(a.) Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning.

(a.) Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.

(a.) Divided, shared, or participated in, in common with others.

(a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.

(a.) Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.

(a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.

(n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.

(a.) Alt. of Dicrotous

(n.) An animal having only two digits.

(a.) Dietetic.

(a.) Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

(n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

(n.) The sill or threshold of a door.

(a.) Addicted to sloth; inactive; sluggish; lazy; indolent; idle.

(a.) Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.

(a.) Decayed.

(v. i.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.

(v. i.) A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

(a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

(n.) Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.

(a.) Not settled in opinion; undetermined; wavering; hesitating in belief; also used, metaphorically, of the body when its action is affected by such a state of mind; as, we are doubtful of a fact, or of the propriety of a measure.

(a.) Admitting of doubt; not obvious, clear, or certain; questionable; not decided; not easy to be defined, classed, or named; as, a doubtful case, hue, claim, title, species, and the like.

(a.) Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.

(a.) Of uncertain issue or event.

(a.) Fearful; apprehensive; suspicious.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the myelon; as, the myelonal, or spinal, nerves.

(a.) Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

(a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

(a.) Curiously shaped or constructed; as, she wore a fanciful headdress.

(v. t.) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands.

(v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.

(v. t.) To spread loosely or disorderly.

(v. i.) To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair.

(a.) Wide; extensive.

(n.) As much as a spade will hold or lift.

(n.) The irregular triangular space between the curve of an arch and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.

(n.) A narrow mat or passe partout for a picture.

(a.) Sparing; chary.

(v. t.) To put into a kennel.

(n.) As much set type as fills a composing stick.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.

(v. t.) To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.

(v. t.) To pierce; to thrill.

(a.) Full of speed (in any sense).

(a.) Alt. of Entozoic

(a.) Abounding in spells, or charms.

(n.) An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort.

(n.) A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.

(n.) A peculiar gregarious burrowing rodent (Haplodon rufus), native of the coast region of the Northwestern United States. It somewhat resembles a muskrat or marmot, but has only a rudimentary tail. Its head is broad, its eyes are small and its fur is brownish above, gray beneath. It constitutes the family Haplodontidae. Called also boomer, showt'l, and mountain beaver.

(a.) Full of shade; shady.

(a.) Ending in a point.

(n.) The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

(a.) Bringing shame or disgrace; injurious to reputation; disgraceful.

(a.) Exciting the feeling of shame in others; indecent; as, a shameful picture; a shameful sight.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cycle or circle; moving in cycles; as, cyclical time.

(a.) Making divine; producing a likeness to God; god-making.

(n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.

(n.) A plant of the genus Asphodelus.

(n.) A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.

(n.) Adelicacy.

(n.) Enough to fill a sheet; as much as a sheet can hold.

(a.) Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the seasons.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a demon.

(n.) Demur; delay in acting or deciding.

(a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife.

(v. t.) To make a vassal of.

(a.) Abounding with storms.

(a.) Pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone.

(a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.

(a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.

(a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.

(n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.

(n.) Direction conformable to that of another line,

(n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.

(a.) Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

(interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.

(n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.

(n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.

(a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.

(a.) Of or relating to generation.

(a.) Full of faults or sins.

(n.) An armchair; hence (because the members sit in fauteuils or armchairs), membership in the French Academy.

(n.) Chair of a presiding officer.

(a.) Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.

(a.) Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitful wife.

(a.) Fucoid.

(a.) Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as, fucoidal sandstone.

(a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

(a.) Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.

(n.) A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.

(a.) Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.

(a.) Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.

(a.) Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral.

(a.) Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.

(a.) Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

(a.) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.

(n.) Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) See Immanuel.

(a.) Pertaining to an achene.

(a.) Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.

(n.) Empyrean.

(n.) See Garefowl.

(v. t.) To cut with a chisel.

(n.) The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

(a.) Alt. of Encrinital

(a.) Endemic.

(a.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.

(a.) Lasting but a moment; brief.

(a.) Important; momentous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to moment or momentum.

(a.) Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

(n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

(a.) Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.

(a.) Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.

(n.) The seventh month of the French republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. It began March 21 and ended April 19. See VendEmiaire.

(a.) Relating to gesture.

(a.) Fit to make one aghast; dismal.

(a.) Tressy.

(n.) The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

(n.) Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.

(n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the gums.

(n.) As much as a wagon will hold; enough to fill a wagon; a wagonload.

(n.) A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.

(n.) Sighting or making land when at sea.

(n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

(a.) Full of moisture.

(a.) Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.

(n.) A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.

(n.) A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.

(a.) Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

(a.) Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.

(v. t.) To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.

(v. i.) To utter predictions.

(a.) Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.

() Expecting a wish; supplicatory.

(n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

(n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

(a.) Relating to a fornix.

(v. t.) To forestall.

(a.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum.

(n.) Beginning of evening.

(a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

(a.) Full of fountains.

(a.) Relating to an effigy.

(a.) Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.

(a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.

(n.) Vertical position; zenith.

(n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.

(n.) A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.

(a.) Vesper; evening.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vicar; as, vicarial tithes.

(a.) Delegated; vicarious; as, vicarial power.

(n.) A contraction of Studding sail.

(a.) Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles.

(a.) Occurring once in every three hours.

(a.) Near the base.

(n.) The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.

(a.) Glassy; shining like glass.

(a.) Situated under the dura mater, or between the dura mater and the arachnoid membrane.

(a.) Nearly equal.

(a.) Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

(a.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.

(a.) Having three nodal points.

(a.) Having three feet.

(a.) Trite.

(n.) Same as Glycerin.

(n.) A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

(n.) A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.

(a. & n.) Same as Subtonic.

(a.) Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.

(n.) A hypothetical radical characteristic of succinic acid and certain of its derivatives.

(n.) Same as Troupial.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

(n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America.

(a.) Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.

(a.) Gnomonical.

(a.) Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.

(n.) As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

(a.) Full of trust; trusting.

(a.) Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy.

(n.) See Muscadel.

(n.) A pimp; also, a bawd.

(n.) Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several related genera. They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are highly prized for food.

() Alt. of Medievalist

(a.) Same as Macrurous.

(n.) See Bonito, 3.

(a.) Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.

(a.) Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.

(a.) Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war.

(a.) Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.

(a.) Intrinsic; inherent; real.

(a.) Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.

(v. t.) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.

(a.) Iambic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to medicine, or to medical men.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

(n.) A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.

(n.) Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II.

(n.) A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.

(n.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.

(n.) Alt. of Intervale

(v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave.

(a.) Unsuitable to a son or a daughter; undutiful; not becoming a child.

(a.) Ungual.

(a.) Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction.

(a.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to multiaxial.

(a.) Being in unison; unisonant.

(a.) Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an imago.

(a.) Having one meaning only; -- contrasted with equivocal.

(a.) Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2.

(n.) Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

(n.) Unequivocal; indubitable.

(n.) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces.

(n.) A word having but one meaning.

(v. t.) To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox.

(v. t.) Fig.: To discover; to disclose.

(a.) Fitted or designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory; peaceful.

(a.) Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark.

(a.) Addicted to the use of irony; given to irony.

(n.) God with us; -- an appellation of the Christ.

(a.) Not lawful; contrary to law.

(a.) Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.

(a.) Connected with, or pertaining to immortability.

(a.) Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.

(a.) Great; excessive; grievous.

(n.) One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.

(v. t.) To take the saddle off; to unsaddle.

(n.) See Muscatel, n.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.

(n.) A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine, made in Italy, Spain, and France.

(n.) Finest raisins, dried on the vine; "sun raisins."

(n.) A lava field.

(v. t.) To exceed in swelling.

(v. t.) To swell beyond; to overflow.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Jews.

(n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.

(n.) An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.

(a.) Desirous.

(n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.

(n.) An unexpected legacy, or other gain.

(n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.

(n.) An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.

(n.) The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.

(n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.

(n.) A low hill at the foot of higher hills or mountains.

(n.) Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

(a.) Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.

(a.) Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

(n.) A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.

(v. t.) To gall or wound with a spur.

(n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.

(n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.

(n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.

(v. t.) To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.

(a.) Forensic.

(a.) Heroic.

(n.) See Uranus.

(a.) Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish.

(n.) Alt. of Hickway

(n.) A piece an inch long.

(adv.) Little by little; gradually.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

(n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

(n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.

(n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(a.) Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the hallux.

(n.) A loose, printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.

(n.) A pruning hook.

(a.) Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.

(a.) Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.

(a.) Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.

(a.) Full of fiendish spirit or arts.

(a.) Represented by figure or delineation.

(n.) Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.

(n.) Growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike.

(n.) That which terminates or ends; termination; extremity.

(n.) Either of the ends of the conducting circuit of an electrical apparatus, as an inductorium, dynamo, or electric motor, usually provided with binding screws for the attachment of wires by which a current may be conveyed into or from the machine; a pole.

(n.) Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae.

(a.) Isometric.

(n.) See Jurel.

(n.) A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.

(n.) A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.

(n.) A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.

(n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.

(a.) Forward; perverse; harsh; sour; rugged.

(a.) Of or pertaining to texture.

(a.) Obtaining or deserving thanks; thankworthy.

(a.) Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful.

(a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical.

(n.) A sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), which yields the best quality of tortoise shell; -- called also caret.

(a.) Not yet mature or aged; young.

(a.) Also used figuratively.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports.

(a.) Fresh; vigorous, as in youth.

(n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.

(n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.

(n.) See Myricyl.

(a.) Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

(a.) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

(n.) Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

(n.) A memorandum; a record.

(n.) A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.

(n.) Memory; remembrance.

(n.) A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the zenith.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets.

(n.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.

(n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene.

(a.) Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.

(a.) Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise.

(a.) Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment.

(n.) Same as Multifoil.

(n.) The hypothetical radical of phthalic acid.

(a.) Full of pride; haughty.

(a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.

(a.) Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.

(a.) Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.

(a.) Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.

(a.) Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.

(a.) Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma.

(n.) A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

(n.) A young or small pike.

(n.) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.

(n.) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.

(a.) Pictorial.

(n.) A picture.

(n.) See Pintail, 1.

(a.) Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.

(n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia.

(a.) Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial.

(a.) Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.

(a.) Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.

(a.) Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

(a.) Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.

(a.) Full of truth; veracious; reliable.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.

(a.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

(a.) Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions.

(a.) Relating or belonging to things above; celestial; heavenly; as, supernal grace.

(n.) The garfish.

(a.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

(n.) A turbinal bone or cartilage.

(n.) The act of supplying; a supply.

(n.) Turmeric oil, a brownish yellow, oily substance extracted from turmeric by ligroin.

(n.) The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

(a.) Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech.

(a.) Abounding in surges; surgy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.

(n.) Surmise.

(n.) A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.

(n.) Survey.

(n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

(n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Adam, or resembling him.

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

(a.) Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

(a.) Of or pertaining to synocha; like synocha.

(a.) Of or pertaining to synovia; secreting synovia.

(a.) Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart.

(a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep.

(n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

(n.) The ball used in this game.

(a.) Pertaining to a syzygy.

(n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.

(a.) Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil.

(v. t.) To write on a scroll; to record.

(a.) Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.

(a.) Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional.

(a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus.

(n.) A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.

(n.) An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent.

(n.) A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

(a.) Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases.

(n.) Entrail or inside.

(n.) A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc.

(a.) Lacking art or skill; artless.

(n.) Alt. of Hymenean

(n.) Alt. of Hymenean

(v. t.) To remove or release from a barrel or barrels.

(a.) Alt. of Hyoidean

(a.) Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

(v. t.) To deliver from the state of a fool; to awaken the mind of; to undeceive.

(a.) Pertaining to one or more small elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes, between the caratohyal and urohyal.

(n.) One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.

(a.) Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.

(a.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

(n.) A puffball.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.

(a.) Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.

(a.) Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of a limb. Opposed to distal.

(a.) Talkative.

(a.) See Predial.

(n.) The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.

(a.) Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.

(a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

(n.) The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.

(n.) The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.

(n.) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.

(n.) A convention not formally ratified.

(n.) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.

(v. t.) To make a protocol of.

(v. i.) To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.

(a.) Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.

(n.) A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors.

(n.) That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.

(n.) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.

(n.) A bird of the genus Anastomus, allied to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open-beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak.

(n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, C3H5, isomeric with allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin. Cf. Allyl, and Glyceryl.

(v. t.) To spell incorrectly.

(n.) A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty.

(n.) An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog.

(n.) A species of clay; meerschaum.

(a.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to posture.

(n.) A hypothetical radical, CH3O, analogous to hydroxyl.

(n.) A light, volatile liquid, H2C(OCH3)2, regarded as a complex ether, and having a pleasant ethereal odor. It is obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol. Called also formal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.

(a.) Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.

(n.) The hypothetical hydrocarbon radical CH, regarded as an essential residue of certain organic compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Lupercalia.

(n.) A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a margin.

(a.) Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.

(n.) Alt. of Lumachella

(a.) Having a smooth surface; slippery.

(a.) Lascivious; wanton; lewd.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a lamp.

(a.) Relating to manures.

(n.) The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a manor.

(a.) Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac.

(n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

(n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

(a.) See Manorial.

(a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.

(a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.

(a.) Of or pertaining to measure.

(a.) Long-loved; longevous.

(a.) Alt. of Malarious

(a.) Full of light; bright.

(v. t.) To fill to excess; to surcharge.

(a.) Too full; filled to overflowing; excessively full; surfeited.

(v. t.) To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.

(v. t.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.

(n.) Alt. of Overhauling

(a.) Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law.

(n.) The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus).

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

(n.) An instrument to thrash with; a flail.

(adv.) Alt. of Dropmele

(n.) See Duck mole, under Duck, n.

(n.) The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.

(n.) A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.

(n.) An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.

(n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.

(n.) Any sail set forward of the foremast.

(n.) A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

(a.) Done or recurring every ninth year.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a stepmother; suitable to, or in the manner of, a stepmother.

(a.) Having the stems leafless.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.

(a.) Attached to one's own country or nation.

(n.) A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

(n.) A nundinal letter.

(a.) Alt. of Nundinary

(a.) Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.

(n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

(n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.

(n.) A shell of the genus Nucula.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the orient or east; eastern; concerned with the East or Orientalism; -- opposed to occidental; as, Oriental countries.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of the Orient or some Eastern part of the world; an Asiatic.

(n.) Eastern Christians of the Greek rite.

(a.) Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process.

(a.) Not copied, imitated, or translated; new; fresh; genuine; as, an original thought; an original process; the original text of Scripture.

(a.) Having the power to suggest new thoughts or combinations of thought; inventive; as, an original genius.

(a.) Before unused or unknown; new; as, a book full of original matter.

(n.) Origin; commencement; source.

(n.) That which precedes all others of its class; archetype; first copy; hence, an original work of art, manuscript, text, and the like, as distinguished from a copy, translation, etc.

(n.) An original thinker or writer; an originator.

(n.) A person of marked eccentricity.

(n.) The natural or wild species from which a domesticated or cultivated variety has been derived; as, the wolf is thought by some to be the original of the dog, the blackthorn the original of the plum.

(n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.

(n.) A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.

(n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.

(v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.

(a.) Fig.: Having deep sensibility.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vision.

(a.) Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.

(n.) Petrified wood.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.

(a.) Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a vortex or vortexes; resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.

(n.) A vorticella.

(a.) Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium.

(a.) Of the color of lye; resembling lye.

(a.) Having the qualities of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes.

(a.) Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.

(a.) Causing a feeling of loathing; disgusting.

(n.) The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.

(a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.

(n.) A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.

(n.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.

(n.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.

(a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.

(a.) Patron; protecting; favoring.

(n.) An auditory ossicle.

(a.) Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.

(a.) Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.

(v. t.) To dwell or stay beyond.

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

(n.) A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.

(a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.

(a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.

(n.) A covering or protecting for the breast.

(n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.

(n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.

(n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.

(a.) Pecuniary.

(n.) In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything.

(n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.

(n.) Tympanic.

(n.) A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.

(n.) One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the perineum.

(a.) At the bottom; lowest.

(a.) On either side of the axis of the skeleton.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.

(a.) Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.

(a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.

(a.) Of pertaining to the parietes.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.

(a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.

(n.) One of the parietal bones.

(n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.

(a.) Mighty.

(n.) The yaffle.

(n.) A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.

(a.) Mosaic (in either sense).

(a.) Full of worth; worthy; deserving.

(n.) Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion.

(a.) Ruinous; destructive.

(a.) Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proceedings; a judicial sale.

(a.) Fitted or apt for judging or deciding; as, a judicial mind.

(a.) Belonging to the judiciary, as distinguished from legislative, administrative, or executive. See Executive.

(a.) Judicious.

(a.) Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.

(a.) Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance.

(a.) Revengeful; angry; furious.

(n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.

(a.) Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.

(n.) As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.

(n.) Hence, a small quantity.

(a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.

(a.) Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing.

(a.) Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.

(a.) Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face.

(n.) A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.

(n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.

(n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.

(n.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.

(v. t.) To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.

(v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.

(v. t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to.

(v. t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel.

(v. i.) To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.

(n.) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.

(a.) Palatal; palatine.

(n.) A palatal letter.

(n.) The excess.

(n.) Alt. of Ploughtail

(a.) Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.

(a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.

(a.) Done in person; without the intervention of another.

(a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.

(a.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.

(n.) A movable; a chattel.

(n.) A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.

(a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone.

(n.) A petrosal bone.

(n.) The auditory capsule.

(a.) Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.

(a.) Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.

(v. i.) To haul under the keel of a ship, by ropes attached to the yardarms on each side. It was formerly practiced as a punishment in the Dutch and English navies.

(a.) Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

(a.) Being or happening before birth.

(n.) A graving tool.

(n.) The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid, C6H5.O.C2H5.

(n.) Same as Philomela, the nightingale.

(a.) Relating to the police.

(a.) In the appointed place.

(n.) A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.

(n.) The Chinese paper parasol.

(v. t.) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in selling price.

(v. t.) To sell beyond means of delivery.

(n.) The all-containing soul.

(n.) Excess of zeal.

(n.) Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

(adv.) Piecemeal.

(n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

(a.) Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina.